Genista tinctoria, Dyer's Broom, Dyer’s Greenweed - Seeds - plants - dried herbs

Common names: Dyer's Broom, Dyer’s Greenweed

Botanical name & synonyms: Genista tinctoria, Cytisus tinctoria, Genista alpestris, Genista anxantica, Genista borysthenica, Genista campestris, Genista donetzica, Genista elata, Genista elatior, Genista humilis, Genista hungarica, Genista lasiocarpa, Genista mantica, Genista marginata, Genista mayeri, Genista oligosperma, Genista ovata, Genista patula, Genista perreymondii, Genista ptilophylla, Genista pubescens, Genista rupestris, Genista sibirica, Genista tanaitica, Genista tenuifolia, Genista virgata, Genistoides elata, Genistoides tinctoria

Family: Legume, pea, bean (Fabaceae, Leguminosae)

• Origin: Europe
  

• 25 to 70cm
  

• perennial
  

• flower VI to VIII
  

• plant community: wet meadow, fresh meadow, steppe meadow, forest edge, calcareous grasslands
  

• dye plant, medicinal plant
  

• weight of 1000 seeds = 3 gram