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Black Broom

Cytisus nigricans

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) pkruzik, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 18, February 14, March 21, April 33, May 48, June 53, July 56, August 48, September 36, October 27, November 14, December 11.
United States380
Alaska380
Austria276
Steiermark122
Niederösterreich112
Czechia107
Ukraine102
Russia64
Italy63
Hungary60

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Material useListed as being used for materials such as wood, fiber, resin, gum, or oil.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderLegumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
FamilyLegumes · Fabaceae
Genusbrooms · Cytisus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Black Broom with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.