Cytisus hirsutusL. (= Chamaecytisus hirsutus (L) Link) Hairy Broom

Cytisus hirsutusL. (= Chamaecytisus hirsutus (L) Link) - Hairy Broom

Scientific Description:

Erect or ascending shrub, 20−100 cm, branches erect or ascending, or sometimes procumbent, patent-hairy. Leaflets 5−20 × 4−10 mm, obovate, oblanceolate or elliptic, usually sparsely adpressed-hairy above, uniformly sericeous to hirsute below. Flowers in leafy racemes. Calyx patent-hairy or villous. Corolla yellow; standard 18−30 mm, sometimes with brown spots at the base, usually sparsely hairy. Legume 25−40 mm, narrowly oblong, hirsute, sometimes sparsely so.

 

Flowering Time: April−June.

Habitat: Hillsides, open woodland, roadsides, 100−1600 m.

 

Reference:

Gibbs PE (1970). Chamaecytisus hirsutus (L) Link, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 3: 17.

Public Description:

Cytisus hirsutus, known as “hairy broom”, is distributed in Europe and Türkiye. It is an erect or ascending shrub with yellow flowers, and grows up to 100 cm in length. It blooms between April and June and is found in hillsides, open woodland and roadsides.

 

References:

Anonymous (2016). https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytisus_hirsutus /, Accessed date: 09.02.2016.

Vural M (2012). Cytisus Desf., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 459-460.