Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia
Scotch Broom
(Cytisus scoparius)
upright, taprooted evergreen shrub in the Legume Family growing from 1
to 3 metres in height; stems are ridged, woody, green to brownish-green
and prominently 5-angled; upper leaves are simple and unstalked, lower
leaves are stalked and comprised of 3 oval leaflets; pea-like flowers
are bright yellow (sometimes with red markings in the middle); seedpods
are flat, brown to black in colour with fine hairs on the margins
escaped garden ornamental now naturalized throughout south coastal BC
and introduced at a few Interior locales
Flowers mature to form flattened, brown to black
hairy seedpods.
