Melilotus italicus (L.) Lam., it is an annual herb, erect herb, up to 60 cm (rarely more) tall, rather robust. ± glaucous, sparingly hairy or sub glabrous. Stipules lanceolate, the lower broadened at base and sharply dentate. Leaflets 20-45 x 10-20 mm, orbicular-obovate, the upper narrower, obtuse or truncate, laciniate-dentate. Racemes up to c. 5 cm long, lax. Many-flowered, much exceeding the subtending leaves, elongating in fruit. Yellow flowers 6-9 mm long. Calyx-teeth shorter than tube, unequal. Corolla c. 3 times as long as calyx, standard ±exceeding the wings and longer than keel. Pods globular-obovoid to oblong, (4-) 5-6 mm long, deflexed, obtuse, beaked with prominent reticulation, yellowish or greyish-brown when mature. 1-2 seed 3-3.5 mm long, ovoid or tuberculation or warted.
Flowering in: Mar-May.
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