*Melilotus officinalis (Linnaeus) Pallas. Common name: Yellow Melilot, Yellow Sweetclover, Ribbed Melilot. Phenology: Apr-Oct. Habitat: Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas. Distribution: Native of Eurasia.
Origin/Endemic status: Eurasia
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, F, FNA11.2, G, GrPl, Il, Mi, NcTx, NE, NY, Pa, RAB, S, S13, SE3, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W, WH3, WV, Isely (1998), Stace (2010); < Melilotus officinalis (L.) Pall. – K1, K3, K4
Links to other floras: = Melilotus officinalis - FNA11.2
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Great Plains: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Midwest: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Northcentral & Northeast: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect to leaning-sprawling biennial of fields, roadsides and other open, disturbed habitats.
Stems: Stems often lax, furrowed and angular (sometimes with red ribs in lower parts), branched, smooth to somewhat hairy.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with a pair of lance-shaped stipules, divided into 3 oblong-oval leaflets, each about â…“ in. long and toothed in the upper half.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in long (to 6 in.) racemes on stalks from middle and upper leaf axils, often on only 1 side of the stalk; each flower yellow, to â…“ in. long, angled downward, bilaterally symmetric, with typical pea-flower shape.
Fruits: Fruit a small, beaked, flattened pod..
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Height: 2-7 ft.
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description: Erect to leaning-sprawling biennial of fields, roadsides and other open, disturbed habitats.
stems: Stems often lax, furrowed and angular (sometimes with red ribs in lower parts), branched, smooth to somewhat hairy.
leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with a pair of lance-shaped stipules, divided into 3 oblong-oval leaflets, each about â…“ in. long and toothed in the upper half.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in long (to 6 in.) racemes on stalks from middle and upper leaf axils, often on only 1 side of the stalk; each flower yellow, to â…“ in. long, angled downward, bilaterally symmetric, with typical pea-flower shape.
fruits: Fruit a small, beaked, flattened pod..
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