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White sweetclover |
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| Vernacular name | Safed senji | |
| Scientific name | Melilotus alba Medik | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Rabi | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Annual or biennial plant is 3-8' tall, branching occasionally and having a lanky appearance. The light green stems are round or slightly terete (furrowed on all sides) and glabrous. | |
| Leaves | The alternate leaves are trifoliate; sparsely distributed along the stems and petioles up to 1" long; hairless, dentate along the upper margins, and oblong or oblong-ovate, a pair of small narrow stipules at the base of each trifoliate leaf's petiole. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Axillary perfect flowers occur in 30- to 70-flowered racemes; | |
| Fruit/ seed | Scarcely dehiscent, and typically produce just 1 seed | |
| Habitat and distribution | Field crops | |
| Flowering and fruiting | January-February | |
| Associated with | Rabi season crops | |
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