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Melilotus indicus (Indian sweet-clover; Annual Yellow Sweetclover; Indian Sweetclover; Annual Melilot; Melilot; Bokhara Clover; Kleinblutiger Steinklee; King Island Melilot; Indischer Honigklee; Indian Melilot; Melilot a Petites Fleurs; Meliloto; Ran-methi; Senji; Small Melilot; Sourclover; Trebol; Trebol De Olor)

Synonyms:
Language: French; Hindi; Russian; Tadzhik

Wikipedia Abstract

Melilotus indicus, sometimes incorrectly written Melilotus indica, is a yellow-flowered herb native to northern Africa, Europe and Asia, but naturalized throughout the rest of the world. Common names in English include sweet clover (or sweet-clover), sour clover (sour-clover, sourclover), Indian sweet-clover, annual yellow sweetclover, Bokhara clover, small-flowered sweet clover, common melilot, small-flowered melilot, small melilot, sweet melilot, Californian lucerne and Hexham scent. In Australia and New Zealand, where it is naturalised, it is sometimes called King Island melilot or King Island clover.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  The dried leaves can be toxic, though the fresh leaves are quite safe; This is due to the presence of coumarin, the substance that gives some dried plants the smell of new mown hay. If taken internally it can prevent the blood from clotting.
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [2]  Bees
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  The leaves repel insects. They have been placed in beds to repel bedbugs;
Height [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Light Preference [3]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Peridroma saucia (variegated cutworm)[5]
Phenacoccus solenopsis (solenopsis mealybug)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe trifolii[5]

Citations

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1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
3Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0