Melilotus officinalis

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Yellow Sweet Clover
Yellow Sweet Clover
Yellow Sweet Clover
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Trifolieae
Genus: Melilotus
Species: M. officinalis
Binomial name
Melilotus officinalis
(L.) Pall.

Yellow Sweet Clover (Melilotus officinalis), also known as Yellow Melilot, is a legume sometimes grown for forage. Its characteristic sweet odor, intensified by drying, is derived from coumarin.

It has been used in herbal medicine. Naturalpaths claim that it helps promote lymphatic drainage and reduces fluid retention particularly in the tissues of the vein wall. Yellow sweet clover is a major source of nectar for an apiary.

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Melilotus officinalis

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