White Melilot
White Melilot - Melilotus albus
Medium to tall plant with erect stems and sharply toothed trifoliate leaves. Flowers white, 4 to 5 mm in many flowered racemes, the standard petal longer than the wings and keel.
Open land, arable fields, roadside verges and waste places.
July to September.
Spring germinating annual.
Fairly common in Central and southern England and Wales scarcer further north.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 22 of the 617 tetrads.
 Sharnford Road junction with B4114 Sapcote SP 4938 9256 (taken 16.7.2007)..JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
16 July 2007
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
31 August 2012
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Land behind William Spencer Avenue
22 July 2020
David Nicholls
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
02 September 2011
 Sharnford Road junction with B4114 Sapcote SP 4938 9256 (taken 16.7.2007)..JPG)
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Agromyza frontella
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Agromyza frontella mines the leaves of various Leguminosae such as Clovers, Melilot and Lucerne. It starts as a linear mine. usually running towards the tip of the leaf then turning back a into a blotch in the midrib area. Frequently, no blotch is formed.
Agromyza nana
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Agromyza nana mines the leaves of Clovers and other species in the Leguminosae family. The mines have a short, broad gallery leading to a conspicuous, roundish white blotch in the centre of the leaf. The blotch is on the upper surface with some deep areas often containing frass.