Ulex gallii | BotanAI

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ulex gallii, photographed by Jerry Lanfear — fig. a Jerry Lanfear, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-08-23 / obs. 92590878

Ulex gallii, photographed by Shawn O'Donnell — fig. b Shawn O'Donnell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48561108

Ulex gallii, photographed by Gilles San Martin — fig. c Gilles San Martin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 48321708

Ulex gallii, photographed by Jaro Guzinski — fig. f Jaro Guzinski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30714861

Ulex gallii, photographed by bogsuckers — fig. h bogsuckers, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88960172

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Ulex gallii, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
France	FRA	EUROPE
Great Britain	GRB
Ireland	IRE
Spain	SPA

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 46 in flower of 48 examined

100%

Proportion of examined Ulex gallii in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	3	3	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	0	1	too few examined
May	1	1	too few examined
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	11	11	100%	74% to 100%
Aug	8	8	100%	68% to 100%
Sep	15	15	100%	80% to 100%
Oct	5	5	100%	57% to 100%
Nov	2	2	too few examined
Dec	1	2	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Ulex gallii 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. 46 of 48 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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 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.

Ulex baeticus f. opistholepis (Webb) Samp.
Ulex bonnieri Hy
Ulex breoganii (Castrov. & Valdés Berm.) Castrov. & Valdés Berm.
Ulex europaeus prol. gallii (Planch.) Rouy
Ulex europaeus prol. richteri Rouy
Ulex europaeus subsp. gallii (Planch.) Bonnier
Ulex europaeus subsp. gallii (Planch.) C.K.Schneid.
Ulex gallii f. opistholepis (Webb) Samp.
Ulex gallii var. humilis Planch.
Ulex intermedius Le Gall
Ulex jussiaei var. opistholepis (Webb) Cout.
Ulex minor subsp. breoganii Castrov. & Valdés Berm.
Ulex minor subsp. gallii (Planch.) Castrov. & Valdés Berm.
Ulex nanus var. major Bab.
Ulex opistolepis Webb
Ulex richteri (Rouy) A.W.Hill

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.

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