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Weed Description: Biennial legume with compound leaves consisting of 3-leaflets (trifoliolate). Found throughout the Southern states in fields, roadsides, and waste places. |
White Sweet Clover: Melilotus alba
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Weed Description: Biennial legume with compound leaves consisting of 3-leaflets (trifoliolate). Found throughout the Southern states in fields, roadsides, and waste places. |
| Leaves: Trifoliolate leaflets oblong or oblanceolate, 1-2.5 cm long, 8-12 mm wide. Leaflets without hair above and having appressed hairs below. Leaflet margins serrated halfway or more back from the apex. |  |
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Fruit: Legume, dark brown to
black at maturity, ovoid, 2.5-4 mm long, without hairs, and cross-ribbed. Flower: Small, white, arranged in many-flowered terminal and axillary racemes. |
| Stems: Short-pubescent above,
without hairs below. Identifying Characteristics: Trifoliate leaves with serrated margins halfway or often more back from the apex. White sweet clover is similar in appearance to yellow sweet clover, but has white flowers and net-veined pods. |
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