Family: Fabaceae Dyer's Greenweed Genista tinctoria Flowering: July-September. Perennial. Native in GB and Channel Islands Grows on heavy soils in unimproved calcareous grasslands, mires, roadsides, grassy heaths and in rough pastures. Decreasing due to habitat loss A small deciduous shrub with oval to linear-lanceolate leaves. The yellow flowers grow in leafy spikes and the seedpods are hairless. Similar: Petty Whin, Genista anglica grows on dry heaths

Dyer's Greenweed, Genista tinctoria
Alner's Gorse, Dorset. 2014 and 2015