(white sweetclover, Melilots species)
AKA: bokhara clover, white melilot, honey clover
Toxicity:
Melilotus spp (sweet clover)
During the process of spoiling, the coumarins in sweet clover are converted to toxic dicumarol, a potent vitamin K antagonist and anticoagulant. Any method of hay storage that allows molding of sweet clover promotes the likelihood of formation of dicumarol in the hay.
Uses: Honey plant, source of nectar, habitat for ducks and small mammals. May be used as forage and cover crop but if molded, it produces a toxic chemical dicumarol.
Ingesting dicumarol may result in internal hemorrhage and death.
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