Silver Broom, Flatpod, Rascavieja                 a-deen-o-KAR-pus day-KOR-ti-kanz

• Erect deciduous shrub, to 7-10 ft (2.2-3 m) tall, horizontally branching, branchlets densely hairy, becoming glabrous.  Bark flaky, ash-gray to white.  Leaves alternate, compound, 3-leaflets, each narrowly elliptic to linear, to 8-18 mm long, margins revolute to folded with adpressed hairs throughout.  Flowers bright yellow, in dense arching terminal clusters to 6 cm; blooms in late spring and early summer.  Fruit a pod, 3-5 cm long and about 1 cm wide, narrowly oblong, densely glandular hairy.
• Sun or light shade.  Needs good drainage.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 8         Native to Spain.
• decorticans: with peeling bark.