Chamaecytisus hirsutus(L.) Link

WFO wfo-0000213656 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Chamaecytisus hirsutus, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. a Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-18 / obs. 198703501

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Chamaecytisus hirsutus is native: Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania AustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.Romania
Native distribution of Chamaecytisus hirsutus, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM

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 153 in flower of 163 examined

Proportion of examined Chamaecytisus hirsutus in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 0 too few examined
Feb 0 0 too few examined
Mar 5 6 83% 44% to 97%
Apr 61 62 98% 91% to 100%
May 63 64 98% 92% to 100%
Jun 17 21 81% 60% to 92%
Jul 6 9 67% 35% to 88%
Aug 0 0 too few examined
Sep 0 0 too few examined
Oct 1 1 too few examined
Nov 0 0 too few examined
Dec 0 0 too few examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Chamaecytisus hirsutus 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. 153 of 163 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 91 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 capitatus (Scop.) Link
  • Chamaecytisus ciliatus (Wahlenb.) Rothm.
  • Chamaecytisus ciliatus subsp. falcatus (Waldst. & Kit.) Soó
  • Chamaecytisus ciliatus var. grisebachii (Briq.) Kuzmanov
  • Chamaecytisus falcatus (Waldst. & Kit.) Holub
  • Chamaecytisus falcatus var. grisebachii (Briq.) Micevski
  • Chamaecytisus hirsutus subsp. ciliatus (Wahlenb.) Klásk.
  • Chamaecytisus hirsutus subsp. ciliatus (Wahlenb.) Å.Strid
  • Chamaecytisus leiocarpus var. bosniacus (Beck) Diklić
  • Chamaecytisus polytrichus (M.Bieb.) Rothm.
  • Chamaecytisus polytrichus var. demissus (Boiss.) Kuzmanov
  • Chamaecytisus triflorus subsp. ciliatus (Wahlenb.) Holub
  • Chamaecytisus triflorus subsp. falcatus (Waldst. & Kit.) Pifkó
  • Cytisus austriacus var. pauciflorus (Ebel) Briq.
  • Cytisus bosniacus (Beck) Beck
  • Cytisus capitatus Scop.
  • Cytisus capitatus f. neilreichii Rchb.f.
  • Cytisus capitatus subsp. ciliatus (Wahlenb.) Nyman
  • Cytisus capitatus subsp. verus Grab.
  • Cytisus capitatus subsp. vulgaris Čelak.
  • Cytisus capitatus var. alternifolius Grab.
  • Cytisus capitatus var. ciliatus (Wahlenb.) Sagorski & Gus.Schneid.
  • Cytisus capitatus var. decumbens Grab.
  • Cytisus capitatus var. lateralis Neilr.

and 67 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.

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