Species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae
Melilotus indicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Clade:
Rosids
Order:
Fabales
Family:
Fabaceae
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Genus:
Melilotus
Species:
M. indicus
Binomial name
Melilotus indicus
(L.) All.
Varieties
M. indicus var. indicus M. indicus var. tommasinii
Synonyms
Melilotus parviflorus Desf. Melilotus tommasinii Jord. Trifolium indicum L.
Melilotus indicus - MHNT
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.[1][2][3]
^"Melilotus indicus". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
^"Melilotus". Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database. University of Melbourne. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
^"Melilotus indicus". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
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