A spiny, gorse-like deciduous shrub with green stems and spines and leafy flowering shoots bearing terminal clusters of bright yellow flowers.

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Sometimes included in municipal planting.  This species can escape to become naturalised in bare, untended areas.

Flowers in late spring and early summer.

Deciduous shrub.

Occasionally occurs as a naturalised escape in various parts of Briain. 

Infrequently recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.