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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 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]
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.
With his son sitting next to him, Clarence Libman would make deals with farmers who grew broomcorn, a hardy sorghum plant with long, tough fibers that the Libman family had built its broom ...
Whether you grow them in the ground or in containers, sweet potatoes are a good choice for your Florida summer garden.
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.
Charles V and his son Charles VI of France used the pod of the broom plant (broom-cod, or cosse de geneste) as an emblem for livery collars and badges. [ 15 ] Genista tinctoria ( dyer's broom , also known as dyer's greenweed or dyer's greenwood ), provides a useful yellow dye and was grown commercially for this purpose in parts of Britain into ...
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]