| White Sweet Clover |
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| File size | 258685 |
| Original date | 1/20/21 10:48 PM |
| Resolution | x |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/161s |
| Aperture | 13.0 |
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| Metering Mode | $meteringMode |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Melilotus albus Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
White Sweet Clover is the white cousin of the yellow
Indian Sweet Clover. It is a biennial
legume with compound leaves consisting of 3-leaflets. Leaflets oblong or
oblanceolate, 1-2.5 cm long, 8-12 mm wide, without hair above and having
appressed hairs below. Leaflet margins serrated halfway or more back from the
apex. Flowers are small, white, arranged in many-flowered racemes in leaf
axils and at the end of branches. Fruit is a legume, dark brown to black at
maturity, ovoid, 2.5-4 mm long, without hairs, and cross-ribbed.
| Identification credit: Prashant Awale | Photographed in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh & Ratanwadi, Maharashtra. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,