Genista sagittalis

Rarely seen and great for rock, shingle and Mediterranean gardens.

Winged or arrow-jointed broom. A very nice dwarf shrub, it is native to dry grasslands, open forests, hillsides and mountain slopes from central Belgium south to southern Spain and east through the Balkans to Greece. Plants are woody with stems that remain green year-round.  It forms a low matted shrub up to 1 m across with somewhat upright stems of great interest at all times, to 15 cm.  Yellow pea-like flowers are produced in narrow terminal spikes in summer. Award of Garden Merit (A.G.M.)

Coming soon.  Best planted when small.

Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Jean-Jacques Houdré, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons in flower

Andrea Moro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons closeup