White Sweet clover Traditional Cache

White Sweet clover blooms all summer and comes back after being mowed. It's the white froth around GZ. This is a P&G.

White Sweet clover

Melilotus albus (Bokhara clover, honey clover, tree clover, sweet clover, white-flowered sweet clover, white sweet clover, white melilot), is a legume sometimes grown for forage. White sweet clover is a major source of nectar for an apiary. Its characteristic sweet odour, intensified by drying, is derived from coumarin

It has been used in herbal medicin. It includes dicoumarol, which is an anticoagulant. It also has a high sugar content.

White sweet clover is native to Europe and Asia. It was introduced to North America in the 17th century for cattle forage purposes and is now widespread throughout Canada and the United States, where it has become invasive and can outcompete native plant species. White sweet clover can grow up to 2 meters in height and can produce abundant amounts of seeds that readily float and disperse in water. This has allowed the plant to colonize natural habitat such as riparian areas all across much of North America.

It is favored for honey production and for its nitrogen  fixing ability in preparing agricultural soil for future crops.

Sweetclover is considered both a beneficial plant and a problematic weed. Although cultivated for wildlife and livestock forage, soil stabilization, as a nitrogen-fixer, and as a bee plant, both white and yellow sweetclover are now classified in the United States as invasive in some midwestern states and Alaska. Sweetclover is known to degrade grasslands in prairie and natural areas by overtopping and shading native plants thereby reducing diversity. The success of prairie restorations is often hindered by sweetclover invasion. These clovers readily occupy open habitats and have successfully exploited many native prairies and open, mesic plant communities.

The cache is a tied in , camoed, "micro" pill bottle, the push hard to open and close kind. It holds a rolled log with a rubber band and a zip lock bag. Please, put things back as you found them and don't forget to close the zip lock! BYOP, no tweezers and enjoy!