Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Retama dasycarpa

Retama dasycarpa
Photo: Innova18, CC BY-SA 4.0

Retama dasycarpa is a flowering shrub in the pea family, native to Morocco and locally known as R'tem or Algu. It is a drought-tolerant Mediterranean-type shrub best grown in full sun with very well-drained soil.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry fully between waterings.
Soil
Sandy or gravelly, very well-drained soil.
Temperature
Tolerates warm, dry summers; protect from hard frost, roughly below -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Morocco
Climate
subtropical

About

Retama dasycarpa is a flowering bush species in the genus Retama, endemic to Morocco. It is locally known as "R'tem" or "Algu".

Other Retama plants

Bridal broom · Retem · Retama rhodorhizoides · Yellow Bridal Broom · Bridal broom

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Retama dasycarpa 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…