Genista lydia
Deciduous, domed shrub bearing slender, arching, prickle-tipped, grey-green branches, with linear-elliptic, blue-green leaves. In early sumer, produces a profusion of yellow flowers, to 1.5cm (½) long, in short racemes, 5cm (2in) long.

Source: The Royal Horticultural Society "A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants A-J", page 471

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Genista lydia can be placed in the sun or semi-shade. Flowers in June. The heigh of this plant is ca. 50cm. Pruning not recommended. Deciduous.

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