Meliotus indicus
Family: Fabaceae
Plant Description: Annual to 40 cm or higher with upright stems. Leaves 3-foliate with leaflets 10-2 mm long, alternate. Flowers in spikelike racemes, the upper petals 2-3 mm long, yellow, strongly bilateral, pea shaped. Fruit more or less globose, usually with one seed.
Plant Trivia: Naturalized from the Mediterranean area
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Key to the species of Melilotus:
- Flowers white…………………………………………………………………………..M. albus
Flower yellow………………………………………………………………………..M. indicus
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