Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Melilotus albus
Common name
Bokhara, Bokhara clover
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Grassy areas and disturbed sites. Mainly Canberra and nearby. Sporadic elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual or biennial herb to 2 m tall. Stems hairless to sparsely hairy. Leaves fragrant, alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.7-3.5 cm long, 2-15 mm wide, hairless, margins toothed or scalloped to entire, tips rounded or almost pointed, stipules bristle-like, about 5 mm long, entire. Flowers 4-6 mm long, pea-shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, white, in clusters of 20-100 flowers. Flowers all year, mainly Summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melilotus~albus (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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