Common names:

• cornilla real   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• echter Steinklee   (Source: Zander ed17 )
  
• field melilot   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• gelber Steinklee   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• mélilot jaune   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• mélilot officinal   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• meliloto amarillo   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• meliloto giallo   (Source: HerbSpices )
  
• ribbed melilot   (Source: F BritStace )
  
• trébol de olor   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• trevo-cheiroso   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• yellow melilot   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• yellow sweet-clover   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

Native:

• 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 - Punjab [n.]; 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]

Other:

• naturalized in British Isles, New Zealand, United States, Canada, & s. South America

References:

• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices) 2:208.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F) [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk) [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Desr.].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17) [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Lam.].
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412. (Leg ErWild)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit) [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Lam.].
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis. (F CAsia)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR) [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Desr.].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3) [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak) [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia. (F Ital) [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran) [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Sales, F. & I. C. Hedge. 1993. Melilotus Miller (Leguminosae): typification and nomenclature. Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 51:173. [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Smythies, B. E. 1984–1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882. (L Spain) [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace)
• 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. (F Iraq) [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur) [lists as M. officinalis (L.) Pall.].
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP online cover crop database. (Cover Crop Database)
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. (Leg NEurasia) [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. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

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

Check other databases 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
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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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