Ulex europaeus

Plant Characteristics
Habit		shrub
Height:	⇕	8 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Width:	⇔	7 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 7.
Bloom:	❀	early spring, mid spring, late spring, early winter, mid winter, late winter

Scientific Names
Fabaceae >	Ulex >	europaeus >

Plant Characteristics
Origin:	✈	?

Cultivation

Exposure:	☼	?"?" is not in the list (sun, part-sun, shade, unknown) of allowed values for the "Exposure" property.
Water:	◍	?"?" is not in the list (wet, moist, moderate, dry, less when dormant) of allowed values for the "Water" property.

Scientific Names

Read about Ulex europaeus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Ulex europaeus, Linn. Furze. Gorse. Whin. Fig. 3876. Much-branched very spiny rigid shrub, 2-4 ft. high: branchlets striped, villous when young: lvs. scale-like or narrow-lanceolate, pubescent: fls. axillary, 1-3, crowded at the end of the branches and forming racemes; corolla bright yellow, about 3/4 in. long, fragrant; calyx yellow, hairy: pod oblong, over 1/2 in. long, villous, dark brown. April, June and often again in Sept., Oct.; in Calif. almost the whole year. W. and S. Eu; naturalized in waste places in the Middle Atlantic states and also on Vancouver Isl. S.E.B. 3:323. R.F.G. 22:2068. G.W. 17, p. 285.—There is a variety with double fls., var. plenus, Schneid. (var. flore-pleno, Loud.). Gn. 63, p. 441. G.M. 52:393. Another variety is var. strictus, Webb, of upright, pyramidal habit and less spiny, but as it does not bloom freely, it is of little value. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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