Melilotus sulcata

Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie
Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : meusu

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Leguminosae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: furrowed melilot

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Gefurchter Steinklee ; FR : mélilot sillonné ; IT : meliloto solcato ; PT : anafe-sulcado ; EN : furrowed melilot ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed:

Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptic to ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.

- First leaf rhomboidal, broad, obtuse at the base; the later 3-foliolate.

Adult plant:

- Height: 10-40 cm. Plant sparsely hairy.

- Stem erect angular.

- Leaves with leaflets longer than broad, slightly glaucous beneath. In the upper part with more or less sharp teeth. Stipules toothed at the base.

- Flowers white in raceme lengthening into a small filament. Calyx present during the growth of the fruit. Standard longer than the wings.

- Fruit: obtuse and rounded tip, furrowless on the outer border. Prominent veins like very closed concentric semi-circles. Green when ripe.

- Risk of confusion with other species of Melilotus and Medicago before flowering.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Melilotus , Medicago

Ecological profile (click on flags): Present Present Rare