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Madeira Dyer's greenweed

Genista maderensis (Webb & Berthel.) Lowe

Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Genista

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Madeira Dyer's greenweed: Madeira broom ( Genista maderensis ) in Portugal
Photo: Vítor Jorge, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

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English
Madeira Dyer's greenweed

Synonyms

  • Cytisus maderensis (Webb & Berthel.) Masf.
  • Teline maderensis Webb & Berthel.

Characteristics

Growth habit
Shrub
Lifespan
Perennial
In the US and Canada
Lower 48 states: introduced

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.