Calicotome infesta

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Calicotome infesta, photographed by Silvia Scandura — fig. a Silvia Scandura, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-13 / obs. 117461283

Calicotome infesta, photographed by Ljaž — fig. b Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146568503

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Calicotome infesta, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Baleares	BAL	EUROPE
Italy	ITA
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Sicilia	SIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Calicotome infesta subsp. infesta
Calicotome infesta var. ponsgueraui (Pau) Pau
Calicotome spinosa f. ponsgueraui (Pau) Knoche
Calicotome spinosa prol. infesta (C.Presl) Font Quer
Calicotome spinosa prol. villosa Font Quer
Calicotome spinosa subsp. infesta (C.Presl) Rouy
Calicotome spinosa var. fontqueri Pau
Calicotome spinosa var. infesta (C.Presl) Arcang.
Calicotome spinosa var. ponsgueraui Pau
Cytisus infestus Guss.
Genista infesta (C.Presl) G.Don
Spartium infestum C.Presl
Spartium sericeum C.Presl ex Steud.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.