Chamaecytisus albus(Hacq.) Rothm.

WFO wfo-0001061861 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Chamaecytisus albus, photographed by Conrad Altmann
fig. a Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-06-12 / obs. 78299412
Chamaecytisus albus, photographed by Conrad Altmann
fig. b Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42904340
Chamaecytisus albus, photographed by Conrad Altmann
fig. c Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39692148
Chamaecytisus albus, photographed by Conrad Altmann
fig. d Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8541378
Chamaecytisus albus, photographed by Conrad Altmann
fig. e Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78299426
Chamaecytisus albus, photographed by Conrad Altmann
fig. f Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42904365
Chamaecytisus albus, photographed by Conrad Altmann
fig. g Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203791776
Chamaecytisus albus, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. h Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94894916

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Chamaecytisus albus is native: Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Greece, Hungary, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine BulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaGreeceHungaryNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Chamaecytisus albus, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR

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 34 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.

  • Chamaecytisus albus f. pallidus (Schrad.) Klásk.
  • Chamaecytisus albus subsp. leucanthus (Waldst. & Kit.) Soó
  • Chamaecytisus albus subsp. pallidus (Schrad.) Niketić
  • Chamaecytisus leucanthus (Waldst. & Kit.) Link
  • Chamaecytisus supinus subsp. albus (Hacq.) Briq.
  • Cytisus albus Hacq.
  • Cytisus albus f. durus (Bonard) Zabel
  • Cytisus albus f. landozii Soó
  • Cytisus albus f. pallidus (Schrad.) Beck
  • Cytisus albus subsp. leucanthus (Waldst. & Kit.) Gams
  • Cytisus albus subsp. pallidus (Schrad.) Gams
  • Cytisus albus var. bizanthynus Davidov
  • Cytisus albus var. landozii (Soó) Soó
  • Cytisus albus var. obornyanus A.Wildt
  • Cytisus albus var. pallidus (Schrad.) Rehder
  • Cytisus albus var. schipkaensis (Dieck & L.Späth) Stoj. & Stef.
  • Cytisus austriacus subsp. leucanthus (Waldst. & Kit.) Nyman
  • Cytisus austriacus var. albus (Hacq.) Neilr.
  • Cytisus austriacus var. leucanthus (Waldst. & Kit.) Tausch
  • Cytisus austriacus var. pallidus (Schrad.) Neilr.
  • Cytisus leucanthus Waldst. & Kit.
  • Cytisus leucanthus subsp. albus (Hacq.) Hayek
  • Cytisus leucanthus subsp. leucanthus
  • Cytisus leucanthus subsp. pallidus (Schrad.) Hayek

and 10 more.

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.

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.