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Also called ◼︎ 🍀︎ white-flowered sweet clover, sweet clover, honey clover, tree clover, Bokhara clover and ◼︎ white melilot.
Some sources below treat this plant as a population of ◼︎ 🍀︎ white sweet clover Melilotus officinalis alba within sister-species ◼︎ 🍀︎ yellow sweet clover Melilotus officinalis.
Regardless, both are part of 🍀︎ sweet clover genus Melilotus in 🥜︎ legume / bean / pea family Fabaceae in order Fabales.
Native to Eurasia. Invasive > 🌐︎ global Invasive > 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇺🇸 USA Invasive > report it! Invasive > Michigan (page 54)
Uses by native peoples(Ethnobotany database)
Like most legumes, this plant cooperates with a bacterium that fixes atmospheric nitrogen into a form usable by plants and animals.That allows these plants to:outcompete non-nitrogen-fixing plants in poorer soils, orhave seeds and foliage with more protein.This makes their seeds and foliage more nutritious to plant-eaters. And growing these plants may improve the quality of worn-out farmland and disturbed soils.
Management and Control (Wisconsin) Best Control Practices BCP (Ontario) and its Technical Bulletin
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🏠︎ terrestrial ☙ herbaceous plants