Taxon: Melilotus albus Medik.

Common names:

• Bokhara-clover   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• honey-clover   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• white melilot   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• white sweet-clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• handaquq   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• nafal   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• bai hua cao mu xi   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• mélilot blanc   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Bokharaklee   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• weißer Steinklee   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• meliloto bianco   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• shirobana-shinagawa-hagi   (Source: Pl Names ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• huinjeondongssari   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• meliloto-branco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• meliloto blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• vit sötväppling   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide Leg Queensl; F USSR; Dict Econ Pl, as Melilotus alba)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (green manure fide Leg WorldEc; Cover Crop Database; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Crops US; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al.; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Kingsbury; Pammel)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Melilotus albus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt [n.]; Libya [n.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Arabia
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Pakistan
  Indo-China: Myanmar
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Poland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  South America

• also cultivated

References:

• Vestn. Moskovsk. Univ., Ser. 6, Biol. 29:34.
• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. [= M. alba].
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Fu, Y. C. et al. 1977–. Flora intramongolica.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412.
• Hacker, J. B. 1990. A guide to herbaceous and shrub legumes of Queensland.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. [= M. alba].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. [= M. officinalis subsp. albus (Medik.) H. Ohashi & Tateishi].
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:110.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
• Pammel, L. H. 1911. Manual of poisonous plants. [poisonous].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Press, J. R. & M. J. Short, eds. 1994. Flora of Madeira.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sales, F. & I. C. Hedge. 1993. Melilotus Miller (Leguminosae): typification and nomenclature. Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 51:172. [designates lectotype].
• Small, E. et al. 1981. The taxonomic value of floral characters in tribe Trigonelleae (Leguminosae), with special reference to Medicago. Canad. J. Bot. 59:1581.
• Stevenson, G. A. 1969. An agronomic and taxonomic review of the genus Melilotus Mill. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 49:4.
• Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2.
• Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Melilotus albus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Melilotus albus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Melilotus albus.

Synonyms:

• (=) Melilotus albus var. annuus H. S. Coe
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Melilotus leucanthus W. D. J. Koch ex DC.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Melilotus officinalis subsp. albus (Medik.) H. Ohashi & Tateishi
  

Check other web resources for Melilotus albus Medik.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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