Genista tinctoria
Tracheophyta
›Magnoliopsida›Fabaceae›Genista›Genista tinctoria
Ecology
A small deciduous shrub of rough pastures, old meadows, grassy heaths, cliffs, road verges and field edges on heavy soils, usually calcareous to slightly acidic clays. Lowland.
Status
Native
Trends
This species has declined considerably since the 1940s through the loss of old pastures, and is now a rare sight in some counties. Subsp. tinctoria occurs throughout the range of the species; subsp. littoralis is mapped separately.
World Distribution
European Temperate element.
© K.J. Walker, BSBI
Ancaster
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Broad Habitats
Neutral grassland (includes coarse Arrhenatherum grassland)
Light (Ellenberg): 8
Moisture (Ellenberg): 6
Reaction (Ellenberg): 7
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 2
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.6
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 15.6
Annual Precipitation (mm): 880
Height (cm): 60
Perennation - primary
Perennial
Life Form - primary
Chamaephyte
Life Form - secondary
Nanophanerophyte
Woodiness
Woody
Clonality - primary
Little or no vegetative spread
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 932
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 0
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 1
Atlas Change Index: -0.77
Weighted Changed Factor: -26
Weighted Change Factor Confidence (90%)
38
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000003206