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OverviewAI-generated
*Ulex europaeus* is a species within the plant kingdom Plantae, classified under the phylum Tracheophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Fabales, and family Fabaceae. Its parent taxon is *Ulex*. Common names for this organism include Common Gorse, Gorse, furze, Gewöhnlicher Stechginster, and Gaspeldoorn.
The species is native to Belgium, Corse, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Madeira, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. It has also been recorded in Brazil and Shanghai, where it is considered invasive, as well as in Australia. The IUCN Red List assessed its conservation status as Least Concern in 2017.
Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, IUCN Red List, Gbif Occ, Plants of the World, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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Vinony's link graph records 194 inbound references to Ulex europaeus, and connects out to Ulex, hh blood group and Australia.
It is catalogued under topics including Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus, Flora of Europe and IUCN Red List least concern species.
Vinony links it to 44 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Least ConcernSPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
Common Name: furze
via GBIF · IUCN · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,149
- With media
- 1,323
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- CAS, CICY, NY, CHSC
- Recorded in
- United States, Costa Rica, Brazil
Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Ulex europaeus
- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Ulex europaeus
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons gallery
- Ulex europaeus
- taxon common name
- mota
- taxon range
- Shanghai
- invasive to
- Australia
- short name
- U. europaeushabitad
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Encyclopedic overview
Ulex europaeus, commonly known as gorse, common gorse, furze or whin, is a species of flowering plant native to Western Europe.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ulex europaeus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.