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Cytisus striatus

French broom, hairy fruit broom (or), hairy-fruit broom, Portugese broom, portugue, Portuguese broom, striated broom
Habit Shrubs 2–3 m; twigs erect or ascending, green, strongly 8–10-angled, villous or glabrescent.
Leaves

15 mm;

petiole (2–)3–6 mm, densely pilose, appressed-villous, or glabrate;

leaflets 1 or 3 (often unifoliate in new growth), blades obovate or oblong, 2–6.5 × 2–6.5 mm, base rounded, apex abruptly acuminate or cuspidate, surfaces lustrous with age, puberulent or glabrous.
Inflorescences

erect, 1 or 2-flowered.
Pedicels

5–10 mm, glabrous.
Flowers

calyx campanulate, 5 mm, lips barely lobed, appressed-pubescent;

corolla yellow, 20–25 mm, banner not reflexed.
Legumes

inflated (not laterally compressed), narrowly oblong, 1.5–4 cm, surfaces densely white-hairy.
Seeds

3–6, dark brown, reniform, 2–3 mm.
2n

= 46, 48.

Cytisus striatus
Phenology Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat Disturbed areas, roadsides.
Elevation 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; BC; sw Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced also in s South America (Chile)]
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Discussion

Cytisus striatus is extensively naturalized in California, from the San Francisco Bay area to the Peninsular Ranges; in Oregon, it is known from Douglas and Lane counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Cytisus
Sibling taxa
C. multiflorus, C. proliferus, C. scoparius
Synonyms Genista striata
Name authority (Hill) Rothmaler: Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 53: 149. (1944)
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