Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Tall yellow sweetclover

Melilotus altissimus

Also called Tall melilot, Tall Yellow Sweet Clover, Golden Melilot, Tall Sweetclover

Tall yellow sweetclover
Photo: Bouba at French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Europe
Climate
temperate

About

Melilotus altissimus, known by the common names tall yellow sweetclover, tall melilot and golden melilot is a plant species of the genus Melilotus.

Other Melilotus plants

White Melilot · Elegant sweetclover · Annual yellow sweetclover · Round Fruited Melilot · Italian Melilot · Melilotus messanensis · Yellow sweetclover · Corn Melilot · Furrowed Melilot · Volga Sweet Clover · Sweetclover

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melilotus altissimus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…