Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Furrowed Melilot, Melilotus sulcatus
Photographs: near Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Furrowed Melilot
Melilotus sulcatus
Family: Fabaceae

Flowering time: July-September. Annual. Introduced.

Small yellow flowers with the standard and keel more/less equal in length but the wings much shorter. The glabrous, ridged fruit are yellowish orange-brown when ripe. Tri-foliate leaves with toothed leaflets. A usually erect plant. Height to 40cm.

A Mediterranean native sometimes recorded in the UK as a bird-seed alien but a very rare casual in Ireland. Identification confirmed by Paul Green, BSBI

Similar: Tall Melilot, Melilotus altissima, Ribbed Melilot M. officinalis and Small Melilot M. indicus

Furrowed Melilot, Melilotus sulcatus

Furrowed Melilot, Melilotus sulcatus

Furrowed Melilot, Melilotus sulcatus
Furrowed Melilot, Melilotus sulcatus

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