Ulex minorRoth

WFO wfo-0000214037 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ulex minor, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. a Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-04 / obs. 156154342
Ulex minor, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. b Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150865347
Ulex minor, photographed by Thomas and Guillaume
fig. c Thomas and Guillaume, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105302605
Ulex minor, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. d Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100887060
Ulex minor, photographed by Robert H. Wardell
fig. e Robert H. Wardell, CC0 1.0 / obs. 95039852
Ulex minor, photographed by Robert H. Wardell
fig. f Robert H. Wardell, CC0 1.0 / obs. 93629742
Ulex minor, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. g Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61126544
Ulex minor, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. h Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58332975

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Ulex minor is native: France, Great Britain, Portugal, Spain FrancePortugalSpain
Native distribution of Ulex minor, 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
France FRA EUROPE
Great Britain GRB
Portugal POR
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.

Also published as 26 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.

  • Stauracanthus aphyllus f. spartioides (Webb) Samp.
  • Stauracanthus genistoides f. spartioides (Webb) Samp.
  • Stauracanthus spartioides Webb
  • Ulex autumnalis Thore
  • Ulex europaeus f. lagrezei Rouy
  • Ulex europaeus f. nanus Rouy
  • Ulex europaeus prol. lagrezii Rouy
  • Ulex europaeus prol. nanus (T.F.Forst. ex Symoens) Rouy
  • Ulex europaeus prol. richteri Rouy
  • Ulex genistoides f. spartioides (Webb) C.Vicioso
  • Ulex genistoides var. spartioides (Webb) C.Vicioso
  • Ulex minor var. lusitanicus (Webb) C.Vicioso
  • Ulex minor var. nemoralis (Simon) C.Vicioso
  • Ulex nanus T.F.Forst. ex Symoens
  • Ulex nanus f. dissibracteatus Merino
  • Ulex nanus f. dissitibracteatus Merino
  • Ulex nanus f. lusitanicus (Webb) Samp.
  • Ulex nanus f. remotus (Cout.) Samp.
  • Ulex nanus f. thorei (Lagr.-Foss.) Samp.
  • Ulex nanus var. acicularis Merino
  • Ulex nanus var. confertus Merino
  • Ulex nanus var. lusitanicus Webb
  • Ulex nanus var. nemoralis Simon
  • Ulex nanus var. remotus Cout.

and 2 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.