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Genista umbellata is a yellow-flowered leguminous shrub from southern Spain and northwest Africa, growing up to about 1.5 m tall on dry, stony, calcareous hills. It needs full sun and very well-drained soil and tolerates drought well.
Genista umbellata is a species of shrub belonging to the Fabaceae family.
Found on marly or schistose slopes, thickets on calcareous and stony hills. Ibero-Maghrebi. It is distributed in Spain, Algeria and Morocco.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Genista umbellata 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.
