Taxon: Spartium junceum L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CA*, HI*°, OR*, WA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• genet   (Source: Ency CNatIn ) – English
  
• Spanish-broom   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• weaver's-broom   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Spaanse besem   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• genêt d'Espagne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Binsenginster   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• ginestra di Spagna   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  
• ginstra   (Source: HerbSpices 2:209.) – Italian
  
• giesteira   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• retama   (Source: Esp Veg Prom ) – Spanish
  
• retama de olor   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• retama macho   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• retacchu   (Source: Esp Veg Prom ) – Spanish (Bolivia)
  
• spanskginst   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Leg ErWild)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (fide Flower Oils; Leg WorldEc)
  
• Materials: fiber   (fide Leg WorldEc)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Israel; Lebanon; Syria [w.]; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Western Cape
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Armenia; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - South Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  East Europe: Estonia; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Romania
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Entre Rios, La Pampa; Chile; Uruguay

• widely cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1992. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello. 8:481–489.
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
• Isely, D. 1998. Native and naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii).
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
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• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
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• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos (on-line resource).
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Pajaujis Anonis, D. 1993. Flower oils and floral compounds in perfumery.
• Pottier-Alapetite, G. 1979–1981. Flore de la Tunisie: Angiospermes-Dicotyledones.
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• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. 325.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
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More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Spartium junceum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Spartium junceum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Spartium junceum.

Check other web resources for Spartium junceum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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