Common names:

• common melilot   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• field melilot   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• ribbed melilot   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• yellow melilot   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• yellow sweet-clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• yellow trefoil   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• cao mu xi   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• mélilot jaune   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• mélilot officinal   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• echter Steinklee   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• gelber Steinklee   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• meliloto giallo   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Italian
  
• seiyō-ebira-hagi   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• trevo-cheiroso   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• cornilla real   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• meliloto amarillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• trébol de olor   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• gul sötväppling   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Dict Econ Pl)
  
• Bee plants: honey production   (fide Dict Econ Pl)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Leg WorldEc)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Leg WorldEc)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Leg NEurasia; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2; Kingsbury)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Melilotus officinalis from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq [n.e.]; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China [w.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir; Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Morocco
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Gauteng, Western Cape
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Lebanon
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• also cultivated

References:

• 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).
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Desr.].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Lam.].
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Lam.].
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Desr.].
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
• 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.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sales, F. & I. C. Hedge. 1993. Melilotus Miller (Leguminosae): typification and nomenclature. Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 51:173. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Smythies, B. E. 1984–1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Stevenson, G. A. 1969. An agronomic and taxonomic review of the genus Melilotus Mill. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 49:8. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Lam.].
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Melilotus officinalis.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Melilotus officinalis.

Synonyms:

• (=) Melilotus arvensis Wallr.
  
• (=) Melilotus officinalis var. micranthus O. E. Schulz
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) "Melilotus vulgaris Hill, nom. inval."
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Trifolium officinale L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Melilotus officinalis (L.) Lam.:

• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• 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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