White sweet clover also goes by latin name melilotus albus. Annual yellow sweetclover, annual yellow sweet clover plant characteristics. Sour clover occurs in gardens, roadsides, fields, waste places. Photographs and information on melilotus indicus annual yellow sweetclover. Effects of melilotus officinalis on acute inflammation. The roots and shoots were washed and measured on a meter scale, oven dried at 800c for 48h, and weighed. This naturalized weed is native to southwestern europe, the mediterranean region, and eastward to india. Pdf photonastic control of leaflet orientation in melilotus indicus. An melilotus indicus in nahilalakip ha genus nga melilotus, ngan familia nga fabaceae. Melilotus can grow up to a height of four feet and has yellow and white colored flowers. Is under photonastic control during the day and nyctinastic control during the night, but also.
This is the profile for the plant melilotus indicus small melilot trew tattoroq. Plants profile for melilotus officinalis sweetclover. Apparently first recorded on arable land in wijgmaal in 1893 as melilotus indicus. Sweet clover, socalled for its sweet, haylike scent, used to come in several varieties, notably white melilotus alba and yellow m. Melilotus sulcatus manual of the alien plants of belgium. Stipules lanceolate, base hastate and split into several teeth or incised. The website also provides access to a database and images of herbarium specimens found at the university of south florida and other herbaria. In fact, the name of the herb is derived from the following two words mel honey and lotus. Erect annual to 60 cm high, glabrous to sparsely hairy. Melilotus albus and melilotus officinalis are widely used in forage production. Pertinent common names particularly those used in california. In hope ranch and between stevens park and cator, much less common than white sweet clover. Introduced from europe as a nitrogen fixer, and as cattle feed.
Flora pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum pedemontii 1. Melilotus indicus vernacular names edit wikidata melilotus indicus english. Plants profile for melilotus indicus annual yellow. Download pdf comment on factsheet inaturalist nz view observations donate support nzpcn. Meliloto dindia flowering habit at along coast east of bulky dump sand island, midway atoll credit. The record derives from ildis data supplied on 20100714 which reports it as an accepted name record 31598. Leaflets are oval, up to 30 mm long and with toothed margins. Melilotus indicus is an erect, annual herb growing about 1 metre tall. The atlas of florida plants provides a source of information for the distribution of plants within the state and taxonomic information. Thus, intense efforts are made to combine the health benefits of honey and herbs. A novel honeybased product enriched with coumarin from melilotus.
Messina melilotus siculus a new annual pasture legume. Now they are considered one and the same, at least according to the usda plants database, which we use as the standard for herbaceous plant names. It has been introduced to many parts of europe outside its native range, as well as to north and south america, australasia and southern africa, often as a crop or potential crop turkington et al. Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about melilotus species, white sweet clover melilotus albus supplied by member gardeners in the plantfiles database at daves garden. Wildflowers dicots eudicots fabales fabaceae melilotus yellow sweet clover. Melilotus indicus originated from the mediterranean and southwestern europe, and from india uc sarep, 2006. Morphological, anatomical, pollen and seed morphological. Leaflets oblongelliptic, elliptic, or obovate, 4 1520 mm long, 3 710 mm wide, margins serrate, stipules lanceolate, widened at base and often with an additional lobe, margins scarious.
Although melilotus indicus extract mie has recently been shown to suppress growth of several tumor cell lines, information regarding its antitumor mechanism is. In moussavis 2001 studies, based on the morphological characteristics of more than 200 specimens of melilotus from various parts of iran, four species are distinguished, namely m. In the seeding year, the growth habit of sweet clover is different from alfalfa and many clovers. The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild as a local source of food medicines and as an insect repellent. Growth and productivity of melilotus indicus to air pollution. Melilotus indicus new zealand plant conservation network. Yellow sweet clover starts blooming a couple weeks earlier than white and is a slightly smaller plant, but except for the flower color and some other more subtle differences is otherwise nearly identical. Melilotus alba white sweetclover this plant and synonym italicized and indented above can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below. Members are known as common grassland plants and as weeds of cultivated ground. It grows in moderately saline areas, where traditional forage. The plant is grown in pakistan, kashmir, india, tibet, russia, china, turkey, middle and southern europe 16. Coumarin content, morphological variation, and molecular. The dried leaves are reported to be toxic, whereas the fresh leaves are quite safe.
Melilotus, known as melilot, sweet clover, and kumoniga from the cumans, is a genus in the family fabaceae the same family that also includes the trifolium clovers. It became naturalized throughout europe, warm temperate north america southern and pacific usa, chile, australia, japan, southern africa and hawaiii, and is now widespread in all continents wilken et al. Morphologygrowth pattern yellow sweetclover is biennial with several stems ascending from 2 to 10 ft 0. Media in category melilotus indicusthe following 7 files are in this category, out of 7 total. Pdf on dec 1, 2002, joao honrado and others published xxxiii. The results can also be downloaded as a csv file unicode utf8 encoding see status, confidence level, source for definitions. Invasive white sweetclover melilotus officinalis control with herbicides, cutting, and flaming article pdf available in invasive plant science and management september 2009 with 314 reads. Pdf invasive white sweetclover melilotus officinalis.
The results were compared with those from a group treated with hydrocortisone sodium hemisuccinate and one injected with coumarin before inflammation was induced. In vitro screening of forty medicinal plant extracts from the united states northern great plains for anthelmintic activity against haemonchus contortus. Melilotus species, white sweet clover melilotus albus. Melilotus of the tribe trifolieae in order to construct their phylogenetic relationships. This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Forest and kim starr plants of hawaii image licensed under a creative commons attribution 3. This essential oil comes from melilotus, an herb that is botanically known as melilotus officialis and is commonly called as melilot or sweet clover. Allelopathic effects of the humus soils from betula platyphylla and quercus liaotungensis pure plantations on 9 kinds of common shrubs and herbs. In 1920 and 1948 collected in disturbed coastal habitats in koksijde and oostende twice as melilotus siculus. Ten new syntaxa from the miniensean biogeographic subsector northwestern portugal find, read and cite all the research you need. Melilotus indicus, sometimes incorrectly written melilotus indica, is a yellowflowered herb native to northern africa, europe and asia, but naturalized throughout the rest of the world common names in english include sweet clover or sweetclover, sour clover sourclover, sourclover, indian sweetclover, annual yellow sweetclover, bokhara clover, smallflowered sweet clover, common.
Hemidesmus indicus, sariva, asclepiadaceae, indian sarsaparilla created date. Our study investigated the effects of melilotus officinalis l. The leaves are alternate in arrangement and are 12. Ten samples of melilotus indicus were collected arbitrarily from a wheat crop land at pre flowering to post flowering stage of the four selected sites at monthly intervals from january to march. Yellow sweetclover, white sweetclover plant guide usda plants. Each plant profile in the database contains nomenclature info, botanical data, plant description, large, highresolution pictures, images and photos of the plants and its parts, detailed. Melilotus officinalis an overview sciencedirect topics. Pdf chemical constituents from melilotus officinalis. It is monocarpic, sweet scented, and has trifoliate leaves ekhardt, 1987. Melilotus alba is a biennial herb with pealike flowers attached to small stalks of elongated stems cole, 1990. Melilotus indicus annual yellow sweetclover, annual. A study combining molecular and morphological data found that. Furthermore seen on dumps in austruweel 1940 and mechelen 1956, 1967. Melilotus indicus in the germplasm resources information network grin, u.
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