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Melilotus altissimus (Tall Yellow Sweetclover; Grand Melilot; Hoher Honigklee; Hoher Steinklee; Tall Melilot)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Melilotus altissimus, known by the common names tall yellow sweetclover and tall melilot, is a plant species of the genus Melilotus.
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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]  Dried leaves can be toxic though the fresh leaves are quite safe; (This is possibly 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]  Biennial/Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  The dried plant is used as a moth repellent;
Height [2]  3.936 feet (1.2 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
View Plants For A Future Record : Melilotus altissimus

Protected Areas

Predators

Coleophora trifolii (Trefoil Thick-horned Tinea)[5]
Dysaphis rumecicola rumecicola[5]
Hypera postica (Alfalfa weevil)[5]
Sitona cylindricollis (Sweetclover Weevil)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe trifolii[6]
Peronospora meliloti[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
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