Gorse
ইউলেক্স ইউরোপিয়াস
Ulex europaeus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.3 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Fabaceae
Also called Common gorse, European Gorse, Furze, Whin, Common Gorse
Formerly Genista europaea
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Madeira, W. & C. Europe, AlgeriaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, not yet checkedOne source. Checker: Wikipedia page does not state full: it only says sunny, open locations
- Height
- 3.0 m to 3.5 mRead from Royal Horticultural Society and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Royal Horticultural Society 1.5–2.5 m; Wikipedia 4.5–4.5 m
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Italian
- ginestrone
- French
- Ajonc d'Europe, Grand Ajonc, ajonc deurope
- German
- Stechginster, Gewöhnlicher Stechginster, Europäischer Stechginster
- Dutch
- Gaspeldoorn, gaspeldoorn
- Czech
- hlodáš evropský
- Spanish
- Retamo espinoso, Tojo, Espinillo amarillo
- Danish
- Tornblad
- Catalan
- Gatosa europea
- root
- cotolha, árguma, Aiteann gallda
- Galician
- Toxo arnal
- Norwegian Bokmål
- gulltorn
- Finnish
- euroopanpiikkiherne
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Royal Horticultural Society, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Ulex europaeus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.