The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to MELILOTUS

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Corolla 2.5–3 mm; fruit bumpy or with faint lines
 M. indicus
  1' Corolla 4–7 mm; fruit irregularly cross-ridged or with network of lines
 
    2. Corolla white, 4–5 mm; fruit with network of lines
 M. albus
    2' Corolla yellow, 4.5–7 mm; fruit irregularly cross-ridged
 M. officinalis

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