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.
Field Identification:
Plant Trivia: Naturalized from the Mediterranean area
Occurrence: Common to waste places roadways and lawns
Bloom Period: Mar-Apr
Plant Use:
Key to the Genus Melilotus:
- Flowers white………………………………………………………………M. albus
Flower yellow………………………………………………………..M. indicus
