White Sweet Clover (Melilotus albus)

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Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Water Preferences:	Mesic Dry Mesic Dry
Minimum cold hardiness:	Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone:	Zone 8b
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Color:	White
Bloom Size:	Under 1"
Flower Time:	Late spring or early summer Summer Late summer or early fall Fall
Uses:	Medicinal Herb Will Naturalize Good as a cover crop Suitable for forage
Dynamic Accumulator:	Nitrogen fixer
Wildlife Attractant:	Bees
Pollinators:	Bees

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Posted by mellielong (Lutz, Florida - Zone 9b) on Apr 17, 2015 8:14 PM concerning plant:

The book, "How to Know the Wildflowers" (1922) by Mrs William Starr Dana has some interesting information about this plant, which may be the reason it was introduced from Europe. (I'm not sure if it was brought intentionally or not.) Anyway, the author says "the flowers are said to serve as flavoring in Gruyere cheese, snuff, and smoking tobacco, and to act like camphor when packed with furs to preserve them from moths."

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Posted by Newyorkrita (North Shore, Long Island, NY ) on Sep 27, 2013 4:28 PM concerning plant:

Sweet White Clover grows as an annual, but it is kind of weedy and suitable for a meadow. It is much too tall for the lawn and not really for the flower garden. Bees do like the flowers.

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Posted by Mindy03 (Delta KY) on Apr 12, 2012 10:39 AM concerning plant:

Valuable source of nectar and yellow to dark brown pollen for honey bees.

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Melilotus White Sweet Clover (Melilotus albus)