Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Learn more about White Sweetclover from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Melilotus albus
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melilotus officinalis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-15-003:
Melilotus alba
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
White Sweetclover, White Melilot
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Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Biennial
Non-native: Eurasia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
This plant is causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Dark brown/ Blackish
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
Melilotus albus FAMILY Fabaceae
White Sweetclover, White Melilot
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Click the thumbnails to see larger pictures.
Roxanna Martin rlm53010_675
May Spartanburg County SC
M. albus & officinalis are apparently incompatible should not be synonymized, per Weakley's Flora.
JK Marlow jkm140623_188
June Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Flowers white, pea-like, 0.25" long, borne in narrow loose racemes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
JK Marlow jkm140623_188b
June Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Calyx lobes deltoid to subulate, 0.5-1mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow s050625_d
June Union County
Leaves stalked and trifoliate with lance-shaped leaflets 0.4-1" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound