Meaning : Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers. Common throughout western Europe.
Synonyms : furze, gorse, irish gorse, ulex europaeus
Meaning : Small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye. Common as a weed in Britain and the United States. Sometimes grown as an ornamental.
Synonyms : dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen
Meaning : Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt).
Synonyms : whinstone