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Hedysarum boreale is a species of flowering plant in the Fabaceae, or legume family, and is known by the common names Utah sweetvetch, [3] boreal sweet-vetch, [4] northern sweetvetch, [5] and plains sweet-broom. [6] It is native to North America, where it is widespread in northern and western regions of Canada and the United States.
Scoparia dulcis is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family.Common names include licorice weed, [2] goatweed, [3] scoparia-weed and sweet-broom in English, tapeiçava, tapixaba, and vassourinha in Portuguese, escobillo in Spanish, and tipychä kuratu in Guarani. [4]
Genista stenopetala, the sweet broom, Easter broom or leafy broom (syn. Genista spachiana, Cytisus spachianus), is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae, native to the Canary Islands, on La Palma and Tenerife. It is an evergreen shrub growing to 3 metres (9.8 ft) tall. The leaves are trifoliate, the leaflets 1–3 ...
Scoparia is a genus of mostly tropical plants including Scoparia dulcis known as licorice weed, sweet broom, vassourinha and many other names. [1] Species
Genista / dʒ ɛ ˈ n ɪ s t ə / [2] is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, native to open habitats such as moorland and pasture in Europe and western Asia. They include species commonly called broom, though the term may also refer to other genera, including Cytisus and Chamaecytisus.
Native broom grows as an erect or weeping shrub 1.5–6 m (4.9–19.7 ft) high and 1–2.5 m (3.3–8.2 ft) wide. It has a smooth trunk and ascending branches while the minor branchlets often droop. [8] The long and thin leaves are essentially petioles and measure 3–25 cm (1.2–9.8 in) in length. [9]
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Cytisus scoparius (syn. Sarothamnus scoparius), the common broom or Scotch broom, is a deciduous leguminous shrub native to western and central Europe. [2] In Great Britain and Ireland, the standard name is broom; [3] [4] [5] this name is also used for other members of the Genisteae tribe, such as French broom or Spanish broom; and the term common broom is sometimes used for clarification.