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Fabaceae
White sweet-clover
Melilotus albus
Also known as White melilot, Sweet clover, Bokhara clover, Melilotus arboreus
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Sweet Clover · Clover · Pollinator · Cover Crop · Meadow · Nitrogen Fixer · Fragrant · Wildflower · Honey Plant · Biennial
White sweet-clover is a fast-growing biennial or short-lived perennial that produces fragrant white flower spikes beloved by bees and beneficial insects throughout summer. It adapts to poor soils and sunny locations with ease, making it ideal for meadow plantings, cover cropping, or naturalizing bare ground. Be aware that it can self-seed prolifically, so manage spent flowers if you wish to control its spread.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water lightly to moderately; once established it is largely self-sufficient with rainfall · Every 10-14 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6.5–8
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 5a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 18 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- White
- Foliage
- Coarse
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Assam, Austria, Bahamas, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Moths
Sources: trefle, usda
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