Melilotus wolgicus
Melilotus officinalis
sweetclover, volga sweet-clover
common melilot, field or rib or yellow melilot, rib melilot, sweetclover, yellow melilot, yellow sweet-clover
erect.
decumbent to erect.
stipules linear-setaceous or subulate, 6–8(–10) mm, margins entire;
leaflet blades rhombic-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, or linear, 10–30 × 2–8 mm, margins dentate or entire.
stipules lanceolate or subulate, 3–6(–12) mm, margins entire;
leaflet blades obovate, obovate-oblong, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 8–25 × 4–15 mm, margins dentate.
25–60-flowered.
30–70(–80)–flowered.
2–4 mm.
(1.5–)2–2.5 mm.
3–3.5 mm;
corolla white;
ovary glabrous.
4–7 mm;
corolla yellow;
ovary glabrous.
obovoid, 4–5 mm, distinctly reticulate-veined, glabrous.
ovoid, 2.5–5 mm, transversely rugose, areoles notably elongated, glabrous.
usually 1 (or 2), oblong-ovoid, 2.5 mm.
1 (or 2), ovoid, obovoid, or ellipsoid, (1.5–)1.8–2(–2.5) mm.
= 16 [Eurasia].
= 16.
Melilotus wolgicus
Melilotus officinalis
The Manitoba vouchers of Melilotus wolgicus are mostly G. A. Stevenson collections at DAO from the Brandon area and are almost certainly established escapes from the extensive experimental cultivation of Melilotus species by Stevenson; it has also been observed persisting in the forage plot area of the Research Station, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, but does not appear to have spread elsewhere.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Melilotus officinalis is occasionally grown as a forage crop, but it is generally considered to be an undesirable weed.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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