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annual yellow sweetclover, Indian sweetclover, sourclover

Habit Plants annual, 1–8 dm.
Leaves

leaflets lanceolate-oblong, oblanceolate, or obovate, 7–30 × 2–14 mm;

stipules lanceolate-subulate to setaceous;

margins subentire, rarely entire or toothed at bases.

Inflorescences

10–50-flowered;

pedicels 0.5–0.8 mm.

Flowers

calyx tubes 0.6–0.8 mm;

teeth 0.5–0.7 mm, triangular;

corollas yellow, white when dried, 1.5–3 mm;

banners ? wings.

Fruits

1.5–4 mm, reticulate-veined.

2n

=16.

Melilotus indicus

Distribution
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Discussion

Ballast, waste ground, roadsides. Flowering May–Sep. 0–1300 m. Est, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; nearly worldwide. Exotic.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 709
Richard Halse
Sibling taxa
M. albus, M. officinalis
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