White Melilot - Melilotus albus
Medium to tall plant with erect stems and sharply toothed trifoliate leaves. Flowers white, 4 to 5 mm in many flowered racemes, the standard petal longer than the wings and keel.
Open land, arable fields, roadside verges and waste places.
July to September.
Spring germinating annual.
Fairly common in Central and southern England and Wales scarcer further north.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 22 of the 617 tetrads.
 Sharnford Road junction with B4114 Sapcote SP 4938 9256 (taken 16.7.2007)..JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
16 July 2007
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
31 August 2012
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Land behind William Spencer Avenue
22 July 2020
David Nicholls
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
02 September 2011
 Sharnford Road junction with B4114 Sapcote SP 4938 9256 (taken 16.7.2007)..JPG)
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Species profile
- Common names
- White Melilot
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Fabales
- Family:
- Fabaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 22
- First record:
- 11/07/2007 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 26/07/2022 (Calow, Graham)
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HAPeacock
Cossington NR
02 August 2012
AJ Cann
Cossington Meadows
02 August 2015
David Nicholls
Ashby Canal, Shackerstone
15 September 2012
HAPeacock
Cossington NR
02 August 2012
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Land behind William Spencer Avenue
22 July 2020
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe
15 July 2011 B4114 Sapcote SP 4929 9246 (taken 11.7.2007).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
11 July 2007
David Nicholls
Cossington
11 October 2011
David Nicholls
Cossington
11 October 2011
HAPeacock
Cossington NR
02 August 2012
David Nicholls
Ashby Canal, Shackerstone
15 September 2012
David Nicholls
Ashby Canal, Shackerstone
15 September 2012
steven lewis
Langar airfield
07 August 2020
martindgrimes
Pickworth FP to south
05 October 2019
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Land behind William Spencer Avenue
22 July 2020
 B4114 Sapcote SP 4929 9246 (taken 11.7.2007).JPG)
Agromyza frontella
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Agromyza frontella mines the leaves of various Leguminosae such as Clovers, Melilot and Lucerne. It starts as a linear mine. usually running towards the tip of the leaf then turning back a into a blotch in the midrib area. Frequently, no blotch is formed.
Agromyza nana
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Agromyza nana mines the leaves of Clovers and other species in the Leguminosae family. The mines have a short, broad gallery leading to a conspicuous, roundish white blotch in the centre of the leaf. The blotch is on the upper surface with some deep areas often containing frass.