OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Melilotus indicus   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melilotus indicus   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Melilotus indicus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Melilotus indicus

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-15-001:

Melilotus indica   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Melilotus indica

 

COMMON NAME:
Small Melilot, Sourclover, Indian Sweetclover, Alfalfilla


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image of Melilotus indicus, Small Melilot, Sourclover, Indian Sweetclover, Alfalfilla

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_melilotus_indicus1

August        VA

Flowers 2-3mm (vs M. officinalis 5-7mm), densely crowded in slender racemes, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Melilotus indicus, Small Melilot, Sourclover, Indian Sweetclover, Alfalfilla

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_melilotus_indicus2

August        VA

This and other Melilotus plants valued as bee plants for honey production, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Melilotus indicus, Small Melilot, Sourclover, Indian Sweetclover, Alfalfilla

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_melilotus_indicus2b

August        VA

Leaflets mostly oblanceolate to obovate, margins serrulate or denticulate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Melilotus indicus   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melilotus indicus   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Melilotus indicus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Melilotus indicus

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-15-001:
Melilotus indica   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Melilotus indica

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3102

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Mediterranean Europe

Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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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
Yellowish to reddish
Legume

 

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