Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fabales > Fabaceae > Melilotus > Melilotus indicusMelilotus 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: Medicago parviflora; Melilotus berardii; Melilotus bonplandii; Melilotus boumettii; Melilotus brachystachyus (homotypic); Melilotus exaltatus; Melilotus indicus permixtus; Melilotus indicus var. bonplandii; Melilotus indicus var. exaltatus; Melilotus indicus var. laxiflorus; Melilotus indicus var. parvulus; Melilotus indicus var. permixtus; Melilotus melilotus-indicus; Melilotus minimus; Melilotus neapolitanus var. macrocarpus; Melilotus occidentalis; Melilotus parviflorus; Melilotus parviflorus var. rubrocalyx; Melilotus permixtus; Melilotus reticulatus; Melilotus robinii; Melilotus rugulosus (heterotypic); Melilotus tommasinii; Sertula indica (homotypic); Trifolium indicum (homotypic); Trifolium melilotus (heterotypic); Trifolium melilotus var. indicum; Trifolium melilotus-indica; Trifolium melilotus-parviflorum; Trifolium parviflorum (heterotypic); Trifolium rugulosum; Trigonella melilotus; Trigonella smallii (homotypic) Language: French; Hindi; Russian; Tadzhik 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. |
Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Avon Gorge Woodlands |
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376 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Berwyn a Mynyddoedd de Clwyd/ Berwyn and South Clwyd Mountains |
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67265 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Braunton Burrows |
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3328 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Burnham Beeches |
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946 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Canaveral National Seashore |
II |
9090 |
Florida, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Death Valley National Park |
II |
762125 |
California, Nevada, United States |
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Dorset Heaths |
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14161 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes |
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5491 |
England, United Kingdom |
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El Palmar National Park |
II |
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Entre Rios, Argentina |
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Eryri/ Snowdonia |
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48773 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Essex Estuaries |
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114016 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Farallon National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
352 |
California, United States |
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Firth of Tay & Eden Estuary |
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38085 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Flinders Chase National Park |
II |
81245 |
South Australia, Australia |
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Fort Pulaski National Monument |
V |
4213 |
Georgia, United States |
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Grand Canyon National Park |
II |
1210128 |
Arizona, United States |
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Humber Estuary |
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90582 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Karoo National Park |
II |
190300 |
Western Cape, South Africa |
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Lower Derwent Valley |
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2263 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Mburucuyá National Park |
II |
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Corrientes, Argentina |
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Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve |
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5901 |
California, United States |
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Moray Firth |
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373987 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Morecambe Bay |
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151985 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Morecambe Bay Pavements |
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6449 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Norfolk Island National Park |
II |
1723 |
Australian external territories, Australia |
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Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve |
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327376 |
Arizona, United States |
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Palava Protected Landscape Area |
V |
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Czech Republic |
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Parco Del Somma-Vesuvio e Miglio D'Oro National Park |
II |
33648 |
Italy |
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Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol |
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341177 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau |
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360832 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Pevensey Levels |
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8860 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center |
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6101 |
California, United States |
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Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve |
V |
1777 |
Spain |
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Reserva Natural Otamendi Strict Nature Reserve |
Ia |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Riverland Biosphere Reserve |
Ia |
1490891 |
South Australia, Australia |
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San Dimas Biosphere Reserve |
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17161 |
California, United States |
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Sefton Coast |
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11278 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren |
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182155 |
England/Wales, United Kingdom |
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Solent Maritime |
|
27985 |
England, United Kingdom |
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South Wight Maritime |
|
49082 |
England, United Kingdom |
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The Wash and North Norfolk Coast |
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266284 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Tonto National Monument |
V |
1123 |
Arizona, United States |
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Vic Fazio Yolo Wildlife Area Wildlife Refuge |
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California, United States |
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Wyperfeld National Park |
II |
890865 |
Victoria, Australia |
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Y Fenai a Bae Conwy/ Menai Strait and Conwy Bay |
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65440 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 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 |
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
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