Common Name:
Silver Broom
About 20 species of shrubs and occasionally small trees, to about 15 ft (~4 m) Leaves compound, trifoliate (3 leaflets), in dense whorls, ovate or obovate, pubescent below. Flowers in terminal clusters, petals golden-yellow, 10 stamens. Fruit a narrow, oblong, flat pod, sparsely or densely glandular. Native to the Mediterranean, Asia Minor and northern and western Africa.
Adenocaprus: from the Greek aden, a gland, and karpos, fruit, a reference to the glandular pods.
Pronunciation:
a-deen-o-KAR-pus
Family:
Fabaceae (legume)