Cytisus scoparius
Cytisus scoparius
Kuşçubuğu
Erect, much branched shrub up to 2 m. Branches usually markedly ridged or winged, especially when young. Leaves usually 3-foliolate, and then petiolate to subsessile, but also 1-foliolate and subsessile on the younger twigs; leaflets 6-15 x 1·5-7 mm, elliptic to obovate, glabrous to sparsely hairy. Flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs. Pedicels 6-10 mm, slender. Calyx c. 5 mm, glabrous. Standard 15-18 mm, glabrous. Legume narrowly oblong, with dense brown or whitish hairs along the margins. Fl. 4-7. Macchie on dunes.
Most of Europe, but absent from the extreme north, south-east and most of the USSR. Probably adventive in Turkey.
