''Genista pilosa'', commonly known as hairy greenweed, silkyleaf broom, silkyleaf woadwaxen and creeping broom, is a plant species in the genus ''

Genista Genista is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, native to open habitats such as moorland and pasture in Europe and western Asia. They include species commonly called broom, though the term may also refer to other genera, i ...

''. It is tall and has green coloured stems. It has yellowish coloured flowers which grow in 1-3 pairs. It grows in western and central Europe in poor, dry, sandy, and stony soils.

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''Genista pilosa'' 'Vancouver Gold'
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''Genista pilosa''

pilosa The order Pilosa is a clade of xenarthran placental mammals, native to the Americas. It includes the anteaters and sloths (which includes the extinct ground sloths). The name comes from the Latin word for "hairy". Origins and taxonomy The bi ...

Plants described in 1753 Flora of Europe Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Faboideae-stub