Calicotome villosa(Poir.) Link

WFO wfo-0000213265 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Calicotome villosa, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. a Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 197474000
Calicotome villosa, photographed by Henrik Kibak
fig. b Henrik Kibak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191280182
Calicotome villosa, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. c Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190840416
Calicotome villosa, photographed by hecklemore
fig. d hecklemore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190826252
Calicotome villosa, photographed by Bob Walker
fig. e Bob Walker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187037997
Calicotome villosa, photographed by Mitch Van Dyke
fig. f Mitch Van Dyke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187364307
Calicotome villosa, photographed by John Lyden
fig. g John Lyden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186065070
Calicotome villosa, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. h Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178129807

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Calicotome villosa is native: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, Albania, Corse, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeAlbaniaCorseGreeceItalyKritiPortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Sardegna
Native distribution of Calicotome villosa, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Corse COR
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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.

Flowering 234 in flower of 356 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Calicotome villosa observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 234 of 356 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 16 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 cretica C.Presl
  • Calicotome spinosa subsp. villosa (Poir.) Rouy
  • Calicotome spinosa var. genuina Rouy
  • Calicotome spinosa var. macrantha Rouy
  • Calicotome spinosa var. villosa (Poir.) Fiori & Paol.
  • Calicotome villosa var. cretica (C.Presl) Rothm.
  • Calicotome villosa var. genuina Rothm.
  • Cytisus lanigerus DC.
  • Cytisus preslii Nyman
  • Genista lanigera (DC.) Scheele
  • Genista villosa (Poir.) Spach
  • Laburnum lanigerum J.Presl
  • Lygoplis villosum (Poir.) Raf.
  • Spartium lanigerum Desf.
  • Spartium spinosum Brot.
  • Spartium villosum Poir.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. 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.

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