I hope you enjoyed this page and maybe found it useful. I will say it was a beautiful and profuse bloomer and mine stayed small. I haven’t seen it for sale locally here in mid-Missouri. I am not sure I will grow this plant again, but it is a possibility. They currently list an Easter Broom as Genista spachiana, but when I updated this page before it said Genista x spachiana. I ran across this excerpt from the book titled “ An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening” written by Walter P. Of course, I had to check out that genus name… Low and behold, Plants of the World Online says Spartium L is a correct and accepted genus and the flowers are, once again, similar to Genista and Cytisus flowers.
They list 10 different “brooms” with the genus name Cytisus and 3 with the genus name Genista. I typed in “broom” to see where that lead and the search came up with 10 plants INCLUDING ANOTHER GENUS by the name of Spartium… What the heck is a Spartium? It says Sweet Broom is Cytisus x spachianus. I fudged a little and swayed to check out the listing for Sweet Broom on the Monrovia website. Then again, The Plant List is no longer maintained… It IS listed on IPNI (International Plant Names Index)… The word “Hort.” is the abbreviation for “hortulanorum” which means “of gardeners”… BUT the 2013 version of The Plant List says that Cytisus racemosus Hort.-Cf. OK, so let’s look at Cytisus racemosus… Of course, there is no species by that name listed on Plants of The World Online. Gardening Know How saying, “One of the more common sweet brooms ( Cytisus racemosus syn. GREEN BLOG is from the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. I ran across another great article published on GREEN BLOG. Apparently, no studies have been conducted to support this theory one way or another. BUT, if you plant them around other Genista species, they may very well produce fertile seeds. racemosa, or a Cytisus by the same names, it will be sterile. But, there is a catch.Īs long as you plant your Genista x spachiana, G. In other words, Genista spachiana, which is an accepted species name, would actually be a sterile hybrid. The “x” of course means that it is a hybrid, possibly between Genista stenopetala x Genista canariensis (both natives of the Canary Islands). According to Plant Right, this plant is actually Genista x spachiana. I did find a very interesting article from Plant Right that pretty much explained it all. There are many websites offering this plant for sale as Genista racemosa. Apparently, Genista racemosa is NOT an official accepted scientific name and it is hard to find which species this plant really is. I started a new blog and did further research about the Genista racemosa. The name Genista racemosa is an illegitimate scientific name and nowhere to be found on any plant database, even as a synonym.Īfter I sold the mansion I moved back to the family farm in mid-Missouri in February 2013. It said this plant COULD reach 6′ tall x 6′ wide!!! The label also said it was a Genista racemosa. I put it in a planter and then read the label. I was so impressed with the flowers and neatness of the plant that I didn’t read the label until I got home. I brought this Sweet Broom home from Lowe’s in Greenville, Mississippi in April 2012. Those numbers could change as updates are made on POWO. It is a member of the plant family Fabaceae with 780 genera. The genus, Genista L., was named and described by Carl von Linnaeus in the second volume of the first edition of Species Plantarum in 1753.Īs of 12-22-22 when this page was last updated, Plants of the World Online lists 144 accepted species in the Genista genus. That species was named and described by Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze in Revisio Generum Plantarum in 1891. It was also commonly known and sold as Cytisus spachianus (Webb) Kuntze.
It was named and described by Philip Barker Webb in Botanical Magazine in 1845. Genista spachiana Webb is the accepted name for this species of Broom. spachiana (Webb) del Arco (1993), Teline stenopetala var. (1837), Cytisus genistoides Regel (1858), Cytisus spachianus (Webb) Kuntze (1891), Genista bracteolata Link (1822), Teline atleyana K.Koch (1853), Teline bracteolata (Link) K.Koch (1853), Teline stenopetala subsp. Sweet Broom, Easter Broom Genista spachiana jih-NIS-tuh spak-ee-AY-Nuh Possibly a hybrid between… Genista stenopetala x Genista canariensis I NVALID NAME… Genista racemosa jih-NIS-tuh ray-see-MO-suh Synonyms of Genista spachiana (10) (Updated on 12-22-22 from Plants of the World Online) : Cytisus atleyanus (K.Koch) K.Koch (1867), Cytisus bracteolatus (Link) Voss (1894), Cytisus chrysobotrys Fisch.
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