White Sweetclover
Melilotus albus Medik.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 2.5 m
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called White Sweet Clover, White Melilot, Sweet Clover, White Sweet-clover, Bokhara Clover
Formerly Medicago alba, Melilotus angulatus, Melilotus argutus, Melilotus kotschyi, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to China, N. Africa to Myanmar, Ethiopia to S. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 2.5 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- MELALB, Цагаан хошоон, MEAL2
- Spanish
- meliloto blanco, trébol de olor blanco, Trébol de olor
- Japanese
- シロバナシナガワハギ
- Russian
- Донник белый
- Finnish
- valkomesikkä
- Italian
- trifoglio di Bokhara, Meliloto Bianco
- Portuguese
- meliloto-branco
- French
- mélilot blanc, Melilot blanc, Mélilot blanc
- German
- Weißer Steinklee, Weißer Honigklee, Bokharaklee
- Czech
- komonice bílá
- Lithuanian
- Baltažiedis barkūnas
- Estonian
- valge mesikas, Valge mesikas
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Melilotus albus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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