Silver broom
Argyrolobium zanonii
Family · Fabaceae · Harmless
The small silvery legume with yellow flowers that grows in dry limestone and schist scrub. Covered in flattened white hairs throughout, it shines in the sun as if metallic.
Scrubland · Uplands · Roadsides and waste ground · Montado
Also known assilvery cytisus
How to tell it
Three small leaflets covered in silky silver hairs on both sides, giving the characteristic shine. Yellow pea flowers, one to three at the tip of each stem. A low plant, twenty to forty centimetres.
What it is confused with
No dangerous lookalikes known in the Iberian Peninsula.
What it is for
No relevant use
It counts as an indicator of well-preserved, lightly grazed dry scrub.
Where it occurs
Each square is an area with recorded observations of this plant. The lighter background is the set of areas where any of the entries has been observed, and serves as a reference. Note what this is not: it is not where the plant lives, it is where people record it, so trails and towns always look fuller than the mountains. Data from GBIF.
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