Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 12 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Algeria | ALG | AFRICA |
| Egypt | EGY | |
| Libya | LBY | |
| Morocco | MOR | |
| Sudan-South Sudan | SUD | |
| Tunisia | TUN | |
| Western Sahara | WSA | |
| Lebanon-Syria | LBS | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Palestine | PAL | |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | |
| Sinai | SIN | |
| Sicilia | SIC | EUROPE |
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 53 in flower of 70 examined
Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Retama raetam 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. 53 of 70 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 25 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.
- Genista monosperma Delile
- Genista monosperma var. bovei (Spach) Ball
- Genista monosperma var. rigidula DC.
- Genista raetam Forssk.
- Genista retama G.Nicholson
- Lygos raetam (Forssk.) Heywood
- Lygos raetam subsp. gussonei (Webb) Heywood
- Lygos raetam var. bovei (Spach) Täckh. & Boulos
- Lygos raetam var. sarcocarpa (Zohary) Täckh. & Boulos
- Retama bovei (Spach) Webb
- Retama duriaei (Spach) Webb
- Retama gussonei Webb
- Retama gussonii Webb
- Retama hipponensis Webb
- Retama monosperma subsp. bovei (Spach) Maire
- Retama monosperma var. bovei (Spach) Pau
- Retama monosperma var. hipponensis (Webb) Maire
- Retama raetam var. duriaei (Spach) Letourn.
- Retama raetam var. pallens L.Chevall.
- Retama raetam var. rigidula (DC.) Maire
- Retama raetam var. sarcocarpa Zohary
- Spartium bovei Spach
- Spartium duriaei Spach
- Spartium monospermum Viv.
and 1 more.
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.
- USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol RERA2. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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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