Fabaceae
Elegant sweetclover
Melilotus elegans
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Melilotus
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Common names
By language (3)
- Arabic
- قَفَل
- English
- Elegant sweetclover
- Turkish
- Zarif taş yoncası
Synonyms
- Melilotus abyssinica Baker
- Melilotus abyssinicus Baker
- Melilotus barcinonensis Sennen & Pau
- Melilotus collinus Guss.
- Melilotus elegans var. barcinonensis (Sennen & Pau) P.Monts.
- Melilotus elegans var. lippoldianus (Lowe) Menezes
- Melilotus lippoldiana Lowe
- Melilotus lippoldianus Lowe
- Melilotus pertusianus Gennari
- Sertula elegans (Salzm. ex Ser.) Kuntze
- Trigonella elegans (Salzm. ex Ser.) Coulot & Rabaute
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced
Photos
Photo: Noé Fleury Frouart, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.