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Genista berberidea

Genista berberidea
Photo: MigraFalko, Public domain
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
NW. Spain to N. Portugal
Climate
temperate

About

Genista berberidea is a species of broom native to the northwest Iberian Peninsula in southwest Europe.

Where it grows

Genista berberidea is endemic to the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula in Galicia (Spain) and northwest Portugal. It inhabits scrubs in humid places, peatlands and margins of water lines. Often in rainy places and hygro-peat substrates.

Other Genista plants

Thorny Broom · Mt. Etna broom · Petty whin · Canary broom · Genista corsica · Floriferous Greenweed · Genista germanica · Spanish Gorse · Mediterranean broom · Genista lydia · Montpellier Broom · Hairy greenweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Genista berberidea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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