Genista radiata

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 36-48" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8b, 9a, 9b. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Cytisanthus radiatus (L.) O. F. Lang • Cytisanthus radiatus (L.)o. Lang • Cytisus radiatus Koch • Spartium radiatum L.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, Habit: Shrub , Lifespan: Perennial

Last scrutiny: 1991-1993

Similar Species

Members of the genus Genista

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 33 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

G. aetnensis (Mount Etna Broom) · G. albida (White Genista) · G. anglica (Needle Furze) · G. anglica 'Cloth of Gold' (Needle Furze) · G. canariensis (Canary Broom) · G. hispanica (Anlaga) · G. hispanica hispanica (Spanish Gorse) · G. hispanica occidentalis (Anlaga) · G. linifolia (Flexleaf Broom) · G. lydia (Lydia Broom) · G. maderensis (Madeira Dyer's Greenweed) · G. microphylla (Retama Amarilla) · G. monspessulana (Canary Broom Genista Monspessulana) · G. paivae (Piorno) · G. pilosa (Gold Flash Broom) · G. pilosa 'Goldilocks' (Hairy Greenweed) · G. pilosa 'Vancouver Gold' (Silkyleaf Woadwaxen) · G. radiata (Rayed Broom) · G. sagittalis (Broom) · G. scorpius (Aulaga) · G. scorpius myriantha (Aulaga) · G. scorpius scorpius (Aulaga) · G. spartioides (Bolina) · G. stenopetala (Gacia) · G. tenera (Piorno) · G. tinctoria (Dyer's Greenweed) · G. tinctoria tinctoria (Dyer's Greenweed) · G. tinctoria 'Royal Gold' (Dyers Greenweed) · G. tournefortii (Aulaga Fina) · G. tridens (Aulaga) · G. tridentata (Carquesia) · G. umbellata (Bolina) · G. x spachiana (Easter Broom)

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Further Reading

• A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conife London;Longmans, Green, 1901. url , p. 329.
• Alpine flowers for gardens: rock, wall, marsh plants, and mountain shrubs / by W. Robinson. London: John Murray, 1903. url p. 228.
• Alpine flowers for gardens; rock, wall, marsh plants, and mountain shrubs, by W. Robinson. London, J. Murray, 1910. url p. 228.
• An encyclopaedia of trees and shrubs: being the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum abridged: containing the hardy trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, by J. C. Loudon. London: F. Warne; 1869. url p. 205.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 310.
• Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, mana London, Henry G. Bohn, 1854. url p. 146.
• Beautiful flowering trees and shrubs for British and Irish gardens / by John Weathers. London: Simpkin, Marshall, [1903?] url p. 97.
• Gardening for amateurs; a simple, complete, and practical guide for garden lovers, edited by H. H. Thomas. Illustrated by twenty-four coloured plates and many hundreds of photographs and sketches. New York: Funk and Wagnalls company, [1915] url p. 904.
• Handbook of hardy herbaceous and alpine flowers. Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1871. url p. 101.
• Irish gardening. Dublin: Pub. Office, 1906-1922 url .
• Nicholson, G. The illustrated dictionary of gardening: a practical and scientific encyclopædia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists /edited by George Nicholson; assisted by J.W.H. Trail. .. and J. Garrett. .. 9 1884 London: L.U. Gill, [1884]-88. url p. 451, p. 452, p. 58.
• Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania, The Society. url p. 89.
• Rock gardens: how to make and maintain them, London, Williams & Norgate, 1910. url p. 281.
• Rock gardens; how to make and maintain them, by Lewis B. Meredith, with an introduction by F. W. Moore. .. New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1914. url p. 283.
• Taxonomic literature: a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (TL2) Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, 1976-1988. url p. 188.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 360, p. 406, p. 713.
• The English flower garden and home grounds: design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs, and trees for the open-air garden and their culture / by W. Robinson. London: J. Murray, 1911. url p. 588.
• The English rock-garden, by Reginald Farrer. London, Jack, 1919. url p. 358.
• The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url p. 28, p. 340, p. 382, p. 49, p. 604, p. 621.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url , p. 119, p. 51, p. 770, p. 786.
• The Illustrated dictionary of gardening: a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists / edited by George Nicholson. ..; assisted by J.W.H. Trail. .. and J. Garrett. ... London: L. Upcott Gill; 1887-1889. url p. 451, p. 452.
• The alpine flora / by Henry Correvon and Phillippe Robert; translated into English and enlarged, under the author's sanction, by E. W. Clayforth. London: Methuen, [1911] url p. 301.
• The book of garden management: Comprising information on laying out and planting gardens... London: S.O. Beeton, [1862?] url p. 698.
• The first fifty years of the Arnold Arboretum [by] C.S. Sargent. Cambridge, Mass., 1922 url p. 152.
• The gardener's companion. With an introduction by Lady Alwyne Compton. London: Mills & Boon, [1909] url p. 130.
• The identification of trees & shrubs; how to recognize, without previous knowledge of botany, wild or garden trees and shrubs native to the north temperate zone, with 2, 500 diagrams made by the author. New York, Dutton[1937] url p. 178, p. 49.
• Trees & shrubs for English gardens / by E.T. Cook. New York: Scribner's, 1902. url p. 372.
• Trees and shrubs: an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum: containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described: with their propagation, cultu London: F. Warne & Co.; 1875. url .
• Trees and shrubs; an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum: containing the hardy trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture LondonF. Warne1875 url p. 205.
• Winter botany, a companion volume to the author's Plant materials of decorative gardening, by William Trelease. .. Urbana, The author, 1918. url p. 147.
• Winter botany, by William Trelease. .. Urbana, The author, 1918. url p. 147.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 24, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• ILDIS World Database of Legumes. Release date: May 1, 2007
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 26, 2008:

• European Environment Agency, EUNIS
• GBIF-Spain, Jardi Botanic de Valencia: VAL
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Lund Botanical Museum
• Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2863494
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-6093
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13623403
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:496292-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 428221

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