Genista germanica, the German greenweed,Richard Fitter, Alastair Fitter, Marjorie Blamey. Wild flowers of Britain and northern Europe. Collins Pocket Guide. 1985 is a plant species in the genus Genista belonging to the family Fabaceae.
Distribution and habitat This species grows in Central Europe, Western Europe and Southern Europe (Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia; Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Italy, Romania, France).Plants for a futureUS National Plant Germplasm SystemFlora europaea These shrubs can be found in thickets, poor pastures, heaths and dry meadows, preferably on acidic soils, usually between , rarely up to above sea level.
Description Genista germanica can grow to . These small perennial shrubs may have erect or prostrate stems, woody at the base, with robust simple or branched thorns. Only the young branches are green, slightly hairy. The deciduous leaves are oval-lanceolate, bright green and pubescent. The flowers, hermaphrodite, are gathered in short racemes, the calyx is pubescent with lanceolate teeth, the corolla is yellow. They bloom in May and June. The fruits are ovoid legumes of about 10 mm, with 2 to 4 ovoid, brownish seeds.
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Bibliography Gibbs, P. E. 1966. A revision of the genus Genista L. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 27:70. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. 1976 (Hortus 3) Pignatti, S. Flora d'Italia. 1982 Turland, N. J. & C. E. Jarvis 1997. Typification of Linnaean specific and varietal names in the Leguminosae (Fabaceae) (Taxon) 46:470. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980 Yakovlev, G. P. et al. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. 1996
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