Hexham Scent

Other Common Names:

Annual Yellow Sweetclover, Sour Clover, Senji, Indian Clover, Small Melilot, Sweet Melilot, Common Melilot, King Island Melilot, Californian Lucerne, King Island Clover

Status:

Plant Description:

Erect hairless annual forb, to about 60 cm high, usually fragrant. Leaves alternate, each composed of three leaflets, 12 – 30 mm long, attached near the tip of the stalk. The leaflets obovate, the upper ones finely toothed along the margins.

Flowers yellow and pea-like, 2 mm long, in dense narrow racemes slightly longer than the leaves and borne in the leaf axils. Fruit is an almost globular pod, 2 – 3 mm long, olive green and slightly wrinkled, carrying only one seed.Flowering late winter – early summer

Habitat:

Found along lake margins, riverbanks, and black box communities with grey heavy clay soils. Occurs in a wide range of habitats.

Comments:

Coumarin in dairy grazed foliage gives a distinctive taint to milk.