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Genista hispanica
Also called Spanish Broom
Spanish gorse is a low, dense, cushion-like deciduous shrub up to about 0.7 m tall with very spiny shoots and bright yellow pea-type flowers. It grows best in full sun on free-draining, sandy or stony soil.
Genista hispanica, the Spanish gorse, or anlaga, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to southern France and northern Spain. It is a dense, low, cushion-like deciduous shrub growing to 0.7 metres high, with very spiny shoots. The flowers are bright yellow, in terminal clusters on the outside surface of the shrub; the flowers are typical peaflower structure, with 8–11 mm standard and wing petals.
Introduced to Britain as a garden plant in 1759, it has become widely naturalised in England and Wales, and locally in Scotland, typically on sandy or stony soils. It is suited for borders, wall and rock gardens, gravelly soils, and coastal situations.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Genista hispanica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
