Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Learn more about Yellow 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 officinalis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melilotus officinalis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-15-002:
Melilotus officinalis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Yellow Sweetclover, Yellow Melilot, Ribbed 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 may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Leaves are subtended by stipules.
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Light brown
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
Melilotus officinalis FAMILY Fabaceae
Yellow Sweetclover, Yellow Melilot, Ribbed 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 rlm52009_007
May Spartanburg County SC
M. albus & officinalis are apparently incompatible should not be synonymized, per Weakley's Flora.
JK Marlow s040519_ab
May Greenville County SC
Roadside
Inflorescence a slender, axillary, pedunculate, spike-like raceme, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow s050622_b
June Greenville County SC
Roadside
Leaflets mostly oblanceolate to obovate or somewhat elliptic, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound