In comparison, Spartium junceum has one lipped calices.
The pubescent calyx, 4-5 mm long, is two lipped with short teeth. The mostly glabrous banner is ovate to rounded wings are oblong or ovate and the keel may be straight or curved. The light yellow flowers open between March and May. These racemes terminate short lateral branches, each raceme containing 3-9 flowers. They are subglabrous above, pubescent beneath.įlowers are borne in subcapitate racemes, unlike Cytisus scoparius. The leaflets are more or less obovate, entire and 1 2 cm long. The leaves are trifoliolate with petioles 3-5 mm long. These pods are compressed, several seeded, with a callous appendage or strophiole near the base (Munz and Keck 1973).įrench broom: Perennial shrubs, 1-3 meters high with villous branchlets. The brownish black pods, 3.5 to 5 cm long, are villous on the margins only. The flaring calyx is glabrous, about 7 mm long and is two lipped with short teeth. The glabrous banner is ovate to rounded wings are oblong to ovate and the keel is straight or curved. Unlike French or Spanish broom, the yellow flowers of Scotch broom are usually borne solitary in axils, blooming between April and June. The leaflets are obovate to oblanceolate, entire, strigose and 6 12 mm long.
The leaves are trifoliolate with petioles 2 10 mm long. 1951) are strongly angled (Hitchcock and Cronquist 1973) and appear naked or almost so (Munz and Keck 1973). The shrubs are 1 2 meters high and deciduous. Scotch broom: Also referred to as Sarothamnus scoparius, this weed is a perennial shrub of the Fabaceae (Leguminosae) family. Scientific Names: Cytisus scoparius and Cytisus monspessulanusĬommon Names: Scotch Broom and French Broom
French broom, Cape broom, Montpellier broom IDENTIFIERS
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