Melilotus officinalis (Yellow Sweet Clover)
Fabaceae (Pea Family)
Semi-desert, foothills, montane. Roadsides, fields, disturbed areas. Spring, summer.
Near Yellow Jacket Canyon, June 14, 2004.
The Melilots or Sweet Clovers - formerly known as Melilot Trefoils and assigned, with the common clovers, to the large genus Trifolium, but now grouped in the genus Melilotus - are not very common in Britain, being not truly native, ...
Melilot, used either externally or internally, can help treat swollen and twisted veins and haemorrhoids though it requires a long-term treatment for the effect to be realised.
Sweet-clover
Melilotus officinalis (Melilotus alba)
Sweet-clover can have white or yellow flowers. The white-flowered variety was formerly considered to be separate species, Melilotus alba.
Fabaceae / Pea Yellow Sweetclover (Melilotus officinalis)
Plant Type: This is a non-native herbaceous plant which can reach 100cm in height (39inches).
Leaves: The leaves are alternate. Each leaf is divided.
Melilotus species
Plants of Home and Garden
Used as green manures; can be used to break up hard, compacted soil though doesn't tolerate being wet. Sow 1 oz/100 sq ft or 25 gm/10 sq m in spring, or in fall for germination the next spring.
Melilotus officinalis. Yellow Sweet Clover. Escaped from cultivation.
Pea Subfamily
Trefoil Tribe
Lotus corniculatus. Bird's Foot Trefoil.
Melilotus officinalis (homoeothetic compound raceme)
Heterothetic compound raceme
Hebe albicans (heterothetic compound raceme) ...
Coronilla real - Melilotus officinalis
Correa - Laminaria cloustonii
Correhuela - Convolvulus arvensis
Correhuela de los caminos - Polygonum aviculare
Correhuela mayor - Calystegia sepium
Correhuela mayor - Calystegia soldanella ...
sour clover Melilotus indicus
sourgrass Digitaria insularis
South American conyza Conyza bonariensis
Southern catalpa Catalpa bignonioides
Southern sandbur Cenchrus echinatus
sow thistle Sonchus arvensis ssp. arvensis
sow thistle Sonchus arvensis ...
Tall Bog Sedge, Tall Fescue, Tall Melilot, Tall Rocket, Tansy, Tape-grass, Tasteless Stonecrop, Tasteless Water-pepper, Tawny Sedge, Tea-leaved Willow, Teasel, Teesdale Sandwort, Teesdale Violet, Thale Cress, Thin-spiked Wood Sedge, Thistle Broomrape, ...
botTrigonella coerulea, Trigonella melilotus-caerulea, Melilotus caeruleus, Trifolium caeruleum, Grammocarpus caeruleus Bulgarisch
Сминдух син
Smindukh sin
DnischMølurt ...
Previous Species -- Yellow Sweetclover (Melilotus officinalis)
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Combinations: Achillea combines well with Sambucus and Mentha piperata as a febrifuge, perhaps with the addition of Capsicum or Zingiber; and with Tilia or Crataegus in essential hypertension. It may also be combined with Urtica and Melilotus ...
the related melilot, or . Clover was used by the Greeks in garlands and other decorations. The druids held it sacred. It is said to have been the early emblem of Ireland from which the shamrock is derived, and it is an emblem of the Trinity.
 See also: Lotus, Green, Clover, Clove, Medic
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