Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, SE of Queanbeyan, NSW

Pods. Photo: Zoya Alukova, California, USA

Plant. Photo: Mark Hyde, Zimbabwe

Common Name

Bokhara, Bokhara Clover

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Introduced annual or biennial forb to 2m tall. Leaves fragrant, alternating up the stems, compound, composed of 3 flat leaflets, each 0.7-3.5cm long, 2-15mm wide, hairless, edges toothed. Flowers pea-shaped, white, with 5 petals, 2 almost joined together. Flowers in cylindrical racemes, the stalks arising from the bases of the leaves.

Description and photo (as Melilotus alba) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 405

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melilotus~albus