Seasonal Wild Flowers

Spanish Broom

Spartium junceum

Fabaceae

June to October

It is planted throughout the country.

Naturalised Spanish Broom is found mainly in the Greater London

area, Hampshire and Dorset . It is thinly scattered elsewhere.

See the BSBI distribution map for Spanish Broom

It is a neophyte, which was introduced in the 1540s and recorded

in the wild in the early 1900s.

It is planted in gardens, amenity areas and alongside roads.

It has escaped and become naturalised on coastal cliffs and

beside roads and railways.

Spanish Broom is a colourful nitrogen-fixing, shrub growing up

to 2m.

Stems are leafless, smooth and round.

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Spanish Broom - waste ground

Close-up of flowers

Leafless, smooth stems