Cytisus wulfii

Cytisus wulfii

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Dwarf shrub, 10-25 cm high; branches procumbent, trailing, ascending only at tips, young branches covered with long subadpressed whitish hairs toward their tips; older parts glabrescent. Petioles to 1-2 cm, silvery, profusely hairy. Leaflets 6-15 x 2-5 mm, elliptic-oblanceolate, more often acute or obscurely mucronulate at apex, silvery, diffusely adpressed hairy on both surfaces. Flowers yellow, 1 or 2 in Ieaf axils, more often forming 1-sided racemes at ends of branchlets. Pedicels to 5-10 mm, Calyx covered with subadpressed, silvery hairs. Standard incl. claw 2-3 cm long, roundedobovate, adpressed-hairy on midnerve above, with brown spots; wings 2-5,5 cm long emarginate; keel densely crisped-hairy on midnerve; legume 2,5-3 x 0,6-0,7 cm, broadly linear-lanceolate, silvery with dense, long, adpressed hairs. Fl. 5-6. Pine Woods and stony places near timber-line, 1300-1750 m.
Crimea, Caucasia.