Details for: PI 593236, Melilotus albus Medik., 'EMERALD'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Melilotus albus Medik.

Cultivar:

'EMERALD'

Origin:

Developed – Texas, United States

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

1975

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Annual

Life Cycle:

Annual

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	100 count		PI 593236 95ncai01 SD

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Melilotus albus Medik.

Cultivar:

'EMERALD'

Origin:

Developed – Texas, United States

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

1975

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Annual

Life Cycle:

Annual

Source History

Developed

1944.
Texas, United States

Developer(s):

Manke, Karl F., Texas Agricultural Experiment Station

Donated

1975.
Maryland, United States

Donor(s):

USDA, ARS

Accession Names and Identifiers

'EMERALD'

Type: Cultivar name

Named "Emerald" because the seeds have a distinctive green color.

Manke, Karl F. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station

NSL 30287

Type: Site identifier

Group: NSSL

National Seed Storage Laboratory (USA)

USDA ARS National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Narrative

Annual, many stemmed, fine stemmed, crown branching, leafy, white blossomed, and green seeded. Shorter and not as coarse as other annual sweetclovers. Greater recovery after close grazing than other annual sweetclovers. Fineness of stems and leafiness due to a single recessive genetic factor.

Melilotus albus Medik.

Genus:

Melilotus

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Trifolieae

Nomen number:

23989

Place of publication:

Vorles. Churpfälz. Phys.-öcon. Ges. 2:382. 1787

Comment:

most references list Desr. in Lam. (not Medikus) as author

Verified:

08/25/1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Autonym(s)
Melilotus albus Medik. var. albus

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Melilotus officinalis (L.) Lam. subsp. albus (Medik.) H. Ohashi & Tateishi

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Melilotus albus Medik. var. annuus H. S. Coe
Melilotus leucanthus W. D. J. Koch ex DC.

Common names

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	Bokhara-clover		1	Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
English	honey-clover		1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
English	white melilot		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	white sweet-clover		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Arabic	handaquq		2	Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
Arabic	nafal		2	Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
English (Canada)	white sweet-clover	Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada official name	2	Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 145.
French	mélilot blanc		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French (Canada)	mélilot blanc	Agriculture & Agroalimentaire Canada nom officiel	2	Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 145.
German	Bokharaklee		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	weißer Steinklee		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italian	meliloto bianco		2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanese Rōmaji	shirobana-shinagawa-hagi		2	Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Portuguese	meliloto-branco		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	meliloto blanco		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	vit sötväppling		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese	bai hua cao mu xi		2	Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
Transcribed Korean	huinjeondongssari		2	Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
GROWTH	HEIGHT OF FLOWERING PLANTS	Height (stem length)of flowering plants measured from the soil in cm, before lodging. Recorded after 50% of the plants have open flowers.	45	10	AMA.MEL.1998.ANNUALS.DEMO.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
GROWTH	HEIGHT OF FLOWERING PLANTS	Height (stem length)of flowering plants measured from the soil in cm, before lodging. Recorded after 50% of the plants have open flowers.	70	1	AMA.MEL.2011.OVER-WINTERED.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
GROWTH	HEIGHT OF FLOWERING PLANTS	Height (stem length)of flowering plants measured from the soil in cm, before lodging. Recorded after 50% of the plants have open flowers.	93	47	AMA.MEL.2010.OVER-WINTERED.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
GROWTH	SPRING VIGOR	Visual estimate of amount of vegetative growth of biennial sweetclover three to four weeks after growth starts in the second year, coded 1-9.	6 - (1 = GOOD, 9 = POOR)	47	AMA.MEL.2010.OVER-WINTERED.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
GROWTH	PLANT GROWTH HABIT	Plant growth habit evaluated when 50% of the plants have open flowers. The most useful data are from non-transplanted, field-grown, widely spaced plants.	5 - MEDIUM	10	AMA.MEL.1998.ANNUALS.DEMO.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
GROWTH	PLANT GROWTH HABIT	Plant growth habit evaluated when 50% of the plants have open flowers. The most useful data are from non-transplanted, field-grown, widely spaced plants.	5 - MEDIUM		AMA.MEL.2010.OVER-WINTERED.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
GROWTH	PLANT GROWTH HABIT	Plant growth habit evaluated when 50% of the plants have open flowers. The most useful data are from non-transplanted, field-grown, widely spaced plants.	5 - MEDIUM	1	AMA.MEL.2011.OVER-WINTERED.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	FLOWER COLOR	FLOWER COLOR	W - WHITE	70	AMA.MEL.1995.BIENNIALS.FIELD	PI 593236 94ncfo01 SD	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FLOWER COLOR	FLOWER COLOR	W - WHITE	10	AMA.MEL.1998.ANNUALS.DEMO.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	FLOWER COLOR	FLOWER COLOR	W - WHITE		AMA.MEL.2010.OVER-WINTERED.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	FLOWER COLOR	FLOWER COLOR	W - WHITE	1	AMA.MEL.2011.OVER-WINTERED.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	PLANT SHAPE	The presence of a many-thin-stem trait that is desirable for forage. Reference: Kirk, L.E. 1931 Sci. Agr. 11:315-325.	BUSHY - Percent of bushy type, usually with 50 or more thin stems. (100%)	10	AMA.MEL.1998.ANNUALS.DEMO.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	PLANT SHAPE	The presence of a many-thin-stem trait that is desirable for forage. Reference: Kirk, L.E. 1931 Sci. Agr. 11:315-325.	BUSHY - Percent of bushy type, usually with 50 or more thin stems. (100%)	47	AMA.MEL.2010.OVER-WINTERED.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	PLANT SHAPE	The presence of a many-thin-stem trait that is desirable for forage. Reference: Kirk, L.E. 1931 Sci. Agr. 11:315-325.	BUSHY - Percent of bushy type, usually with 50 or more thin stems. (100%)	1	AMA.MEL.2011.OVER-WINTERED.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	SEEDLING COLOR	The percentage of seedlings with stem or leaf red coloring in a given sample size. Faint indistinct coloring can be recorded as intermediate green and explained in the comment field.	100	10	AMA.MEL.1998.ANNUALS.DEMO.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
PHENOLOGY	DURATION	The length of time that the plants ordinarily live before flowering and death. The biennials require a cold treatment before flowering, while annuals do not.	ANN - percent annual (100%)	70	AMA.MEL.1995.BIENNIALS.FIELD	PI 593236 94ncfo01 SD	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	DURATION	The length of time that the plants ordinarily live before flowering and death. The biennials require a cold treatment before flowering, while annuals do not.	ANN - percent annual (100%)	10	AMA.MEL.1998.ANNUALS.DEMO.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
PHENOLOGY	MATURITY DAY FOR HAY HARVEST	Maturity for hay forage harvest. For biennials, Julian day in the second year of growth when 50% of the plants have open flowers. For annuals, days after seeding when 50% of the plants have open flowers.	148	47	AMA.MEL.2010.OVER-WINTERED.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
PHENOLOGY	MATURITY DAY FOR HAY HARVEST	Maturity for hay forage harvest. For biennials, Julian day in the second year of growth when 50% of the plants have open flowers. For annuals, days after seeding when 50% of the plants have open flowers.	170	1	AMA.MEL.2011.OVER-WINTERED.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
PHENOLOGY	MATURITY DAY FOR HAY HARVEST	Maturity for hay forage harvest. For biennials, Julian day in the second year of growth when 50% of the plants have open flowers. For annuals, days after seeding when 50% of the plants have open flowers.	77	10	AMA.MEL.1998.ANNUALS.DEMO.FIELD	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
PRODUCTION	HUNDRED SEED WEIGHT	The weight in grams of 100 seeds.	.13		NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNER	PI 593236 91nceo01 SD	Not Available
PRODUCTION	HUNDRED SEED WEIGHT	The weight in grams of 100 seeds.	.24		NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNER	PI 593236 95ncai01 SD
PRODUCTION	HUNDRED SEED WEIGHT	The weight in grams of 100 seeds.	.25		NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNER	PI 593236 94ncfo01 SD	Not Available
STRESS	STAND SURVIVAL 2ND YEAR	The percent of original plants established in the summer that resume growth in the spring of the second year, for biennials only.	2	50	AMA.MEL.2011.OVER-WINTERED.FIELD	PI 593236 12ncax01 SD	Not Available