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WFO wfo-0000213410 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ulex europaeus, photographed by Jenny Saito
fig. a Jenny Saito, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205345534
Ulex europaeus, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. b Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204352086
Ulex europaeus, photographed by Anne Thomson
fig. c Anne Thomson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204759278
Ulex europaeus, photographed by Loren Cassin Sackett
fig. d Loren Cassin Sackett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204917316
Ulex europaeus, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. e Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202605011
Ulex europaeus, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. f Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203979648
Ulex europaeus, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. g Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203786466
Ulex europaeus, photographed by Jenny Saito
fig. h Jenny Saito, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203750969

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 3,500 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 3,500 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 30 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 europaea (L.) E.H.L.Krause
  • Ulex armoricanus Mabille
  • Ulex compositus Moench
  • Ulex europaea L.
  • Ulex europaeus f. confusus Samp.
  • Ulex europaeus f. humilior (Rouy) C.Vicioso
  • Ulex europaeus f. latebracteatus (Mariz) Samp.
  • Ulex europaeus f. plenus C.K.Schneid.
  • Ulex europaeus f. strictus (J.Mackay) C.Vicioso
  • Ulex europaeus subsp. borealis Rothm.
  • Ulex europaeus subvar. tenuispina Merino
  • Ulex europaeus var. humilior Rouy
  • Ulex europaeus var. humilis Cout.
  • Ulex europaeus var. latebracteatus Mariz
  • Ulex europaeus var. parvebracteatus Merino
  • Ulex europaeus var. pubescens Rouy
  • Ulex europaeus var. remotebracteatus (Merino) Merino
  • Ulex europaeus var. strictus (J.Mackay) Webb
  • Ulex fastigiatus K.Koch
  • Ulex flahaultii Hy
  • Ulex floridus Salisb.
  • Ulex gallii var. remote-bracteatus Merino
  • Ulex gallii var. remotebracteatus Merino
  • Ulex grandiflorus Pourr.

and 6 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.