Photographs: Foynes Port, Co. Limerick

White Melilot Melilotus albus Crúibín cait bán Family: Fabaceae Flowering June - August. Annual or biennial. Introduced. Very similar to Tall Melilot, M. altissima but with white flowers, the wings and keel +/- equal and the fruit are brown and hairless when ripe with a netted pod. Erect growth, height to 1.5m An occasional casual on disturbed and waste ground and on roadsides. Scattered distribution in Ireland but where it does occur it can be locally abundant.

White Melilot, Melilotus albus, Crúibín cait bán