Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Genista linifolia
Common name
Flaxleaf broom
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Woodland, grassy areas, roadsides, disturbed sites, and along streams. Mainly Sydney area. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced shrub to about 3 m tall. Young stems ridged, hairy. Older stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets each 1-3 cm long, 0.5-5 mm wide, dark green and becoming hairless above, paler and appressed-hairy below; tips mucronate. Flowers yellow, 10-15 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, in clusters of 3-16 flowers. Flowers mostly Winter-Spring.
A Weed of National Significance. General Biosecurity Duty with additional restrictions all NSW. Pest plant ACT. Noxious weed Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Genista~linifolia (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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