Spartium L.

Spartium junceum L.

Shrub up to 2 m high, with terete striate glaucous branchlets. Leaves oblong to lanceolate, up to 25 mm long, glabrescent on the upper surface, nearly sessile. Flowers arranged in lax terminal racemes. Fruit flat; seeds up to 20. Introd. from the Mediterranean. Fl. summer