Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Genista pulchella Vis. trib. Genisteae |
Synonyms | Genista humifusa Vill. |
Genista villarsii Clementi | |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 600-1400m |
Description | young branchlets and leaves appressed sericeous, leaves 2-9mm long, narrowly elliptic, flowers solitary, ca. 1cm long, in axills of terminal leaves |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | + |
Type | shrub, carpet |
Cultivation | sunny, dry, rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring after hot water treatment, germ. 1-3 months cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Europe
Southwestern Europe Southeastern Europe (Albania , Yugoslavia) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | FABACEAE
pulchella aquilana F.Conti & Manzi, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 153(3): 250 (2007)
pulchella villarsiana (Jord.) F.Conti, ibid.
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