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gorse
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gorse

Ulex europaeus

Ulex europaeus (gorse, common gorse, furze or whin) is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to portions of Europe from the northern United Kingdom south to Portugal, and from the western Republic of Ireland east to Galicja in Poland and Ukraine.

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

gorse in Stirpium adversaria nova

Stirpium adversaria nova

Matthias de Lobel · 1571 · p.433

gorse in Six Groups of the History of Plants

Six Groups of the History of Plants

Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.768

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51751.