Cytisus procumbens

Cytisus procumbens

A deciduous, very leafy shrub up to 11⁄2 ft high, of prostrate habit, with slender arching young shoots 6 to 18 in. long covered with appressed hairs. Leaves simple, linear-oblong, or oblanceolate, pointed, 1⁄2 to 11⁄4 in. long, 1⁄10 to 1⁄6 in. wide, hairy on the margins and lower surface, often glabrous above.
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Appearance

Flowers are borne closely in the leaf-axils, either solitary, in pairs or in threes, bright yellow, 3⁄8 in. long, opening in May and June and forming handsome, cylindrical leafy racemes 3 to 6 in. long; calyx silky-hairy. Pod up to 1 in. long by 1⁄4 in. wide, shaggy with appressed hairs, carrying three or four seeds.

Native of the mountains of S.E. Europe, quite hardy, very floriferous and handsome, forming low patches several feet across.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderFabales
FamilyFabaceae
GenusCytisus
SpeciesCytisus procumbens
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