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.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 5 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| France | FRA | EUROPE |
| Italy | ITA | |
| Spain | SPA | |
| Algeria | ALG | AFRICA |
| 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.
Where it actually grows measured, from 100 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -7.8 °C | -2.3 °C | 2.5 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 20.7 °C | 25.9 °C | 31.5 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 496 mm | 956 mm | 1,407 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 30 mm | 163 mm | 210 mm |
It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 100 research-grade observations of Genista cinerea that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 19 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.
- Cytisus cinereus (Vill.) Vuk.
- Genista cinerea subsp. jimenezii (Pau) Cantó
- Genista cinerea subsp. rosmarinetorum O.Bolòs & Vigo
- Genista cinerea subsp. speciosa Rivas Mart. & al.
- Genista ephedrifolia Pourr. ex Willk. & Lange
- Genista jimenezii Pau
- Genista murcica Coss.
- Genista oretana Webb ex Willk. & Lange
- Genista ramosissima Boiss.
- Genista scoparia Chaix
- Genista valentina (Willd. ex Spreng.) Steud.
- Genista valentina subsp. jimenezii (Pau) Mateo & M.B.Crespo
- Genista valentina subsp. murcica (Coss.) Mateo & M.B.Crespo
- Genistella verticillata Pourr. ex Colmeiro
- Spartium aragonense Pourr. ex Willk. & Lange
- Spartium cinereum Vill.
- Spartium sphaerocarpum Lapeyr.
- Spartium valentinum Willd. ex Spreng.
- Telinaria cinerea (Vill.) C.Presl
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.