Photos: near Ballingeary, Co.Cork

Furrowed Melilot Melilotus sulcatus Family: Fabaceae Flowering time: July-September. Annual. Introduced. Yellow flowers. Standard and keel more/less equal. Wings much shorter. Glabrous fruit, yellowish/orange-brown when ripe. Ridged. Tri-foliate leaves, toothed leaflets. Usually erect. Height: To 40cm. Mediterranean native. Sometimes recorded in UK as bird-seed alien. Very rare casual in Ireland. Identification confirmed by Paul Green, Co.Wexford.

    
Photographs taken near Ballingeary, Co.Cork September 2007.