Chamaespartium sagittale, (L.) P. Gibbs

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 100

1. C. sagittale (L.) P. Gibbs , Feddes Repert. 79: 54 (1968)

( Genista sagittalis L. , Genistella sagittalis (L.) Gams , Pterospartum sagittale (L.) Willk. ).

Plant with procumbent, woody, mat-forming stems, and usually erect, herbaceous, simple or littlebranched flowering stems 10-50 cm; wings constricted at the nodes, but entire, without teeth or lobes. Leaves 5-20 x 4-7 mm, elliptical, glabrous or subglabrous above, pubescent beneath. Calyx 5-8 mm, sericeous; corolla 10-12 mm, the standard usually glabrous. Legume 14-20 x 4-5 mm, pubescent. Seeds estrophiolate. • C. Europe, extending to S.E. Belgium and southwards locally in the mountains to S. Spain, Calabria and Greece. Al Au Be Bu Cz Ga Ge G r He Hs Hu It Ju Rm Rs (W) [Po]. Plants from S. France, with more or less procumbent, sericeous flowering stems and smaller flowers with a sericeous standard, are sometimes treated as a separate subspecies ( Genista delphinensis Verlot ).