Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fabales > Fabaceae > Ulex > Ulex minorUlex minor (Dwarf Furze; Dwarf Gorse)Synonyms: Stauracanthus spartioides; Ulex autumnalis; Ulex europaeus f. lagrezei; Ulex europaeus f. nanus; Ulex europaeus f. richteri; Ulex minor minor; Ulex minor var. lusitanicus; Ulex minor var. nemoralis; Ulex nanus (heterotypic); Ulex nanus f. dissibracteatus; Ulex nanus f. dissitibracteatus; Ulex nanus f. lusitanicus; Ulex nanus f. remotus; Ulex nanus f. thorei; Ulex nanus var. acicularis; Ulex nanus var. confertus; Ulex nanus var. lusitanicus; Ulex nanus var. nemoralis; Ulex nanus var. remotus; Ulex nanus var. thorei; Ulex spartioides Ulex minor, Dwarf Furze or Dwarf Gorse is an evergreen dwarf shrub in the family Fabaceae, native to eastern England, France, Spain and Portugal. It is restricted to lowland heathland habitats. It normally grows about 30 centimetres (10 in) tall, although in shaded, ungrazed conditions it may reach 1 metre (40 in). It is a low-growing shrub, forming small bushes or often growing mingled with heather. The leaves are limited to scales or small spines, and the shoots are modified into rather soft, green, densely crowded spines, about 1 cm (0.4 in) long. |
Leaf Type [1] | Evergreen | Lifespan [2] | Perennial | Structure [1] | Shrub | | Height [2] | 39 inches (1 m) | | Light Preference [3] | Mostly Sunny | Soil Acidity [3] | Very Acid | Soil Fertility [3] | Infertile | Soil Moisture [3] | Moist |
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Area acres |
Location |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Ashdown Forest |
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6744 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Berwyn a Mynyddoedd de Clwyd/ Berwyn and South Clwyd Mountains |
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67265 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Burnham Beeches |
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946 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Dorset Heaths |
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14161 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes |
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5491 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Emer Bog |
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93 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Firth of Tay & Eden Estuary |
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38085 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau |
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360832 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Sefton Coast |
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11278 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Solent Maritime |
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27985 |
England, United Kingdom |
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South Wight Maritime |
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49082 |
England, United Kingdom |
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The New Forest |
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72309 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham |
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12696 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004) ♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 5Diet of the Iberian hare (Lepus granatensis) in a mountain ecosystem, Joana Paupério & Paulo Célio Alves, Eur J Wildl Res (2008) 54:571–579 ♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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