Chamaecytisus heuffelii
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'Chamaecytisus heuffelii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Cytisus heuffelii Wierzb.
- Cytisus austriacus var. heuffelii (Wierzb.) Rchb.f.
Editorial Note
Bean treats this species under the name Cytisus austriacus var. heuffelii (Griseb. & Schenk) Schneid. The text below is adapted to update the taxonomy.
A low, deciduous shrub with slender, erect, or arching branches covered with greyish appressed hairs. Leaves trifoliolate, with stalks 1⁄3 in. long; leaflets 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 in. long, 1⁄8 in. or less wide; linear oblong or linear obovate, covered with flattened hairs beneath; ultimately glabrous above. Flowers borne on the shoots of the year in a close terminal head, each 3⁄4 in. long, with narrow, yellow petals, and a very hairy calyx which extends two-thirds the length of the flower. Pod 1 in. long, 3⁄16 in. wide, covered with silky greyish hairs, and containing four to eight seeds.Native of the Balkan peninsula and Danube basin. It has much the same garden value as C. supinus and should be pruned in the same manner. C. austriacus differs from the above in the following particulars: habit often procumbent; leaflets usually permanently hairy above; hairs of calyx spreading (appressed in C. heuffelii).