''Genista germanica'', the German greenweed, is a plant species in the genus ''
Genista'' belonging to the family
.
Distribution and habitat
This species grows in
Central Europe
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,
Western Europe
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and
Southern Europe
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(Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia; Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Italy, Romania, France).
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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.][
]
Gallery
File:Genista germanica20080528.jpg, Plant of ''Genista germanica''
File:Genista-hispanica, Aarhus Botanisk Have 3.jpg, Close-up on flowers
Fabaceae - Genista germanica .JPG, Leaves and thorns
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
References
External links
Luirig Altervista
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germanica
Flora of Europe
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus