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French broom (Genista monspessulana)
Photo: (c) Roger Raiche, some rights reserved (CC BY) (CC BY), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.

French broom

Genista monspessulana · Fabaceae · all Genista records · also called Montpellier Broom · Wikipedia

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Genista monspessulana cites invasive risk across 1 legal list rows (WA). They answer different questions on Genista monspessulana. Montpellier Broom is the vernacular name attached to Genista monspessulana.

Genista monspessulana still has 1 seed list rows and 1 ecological invasive reports after that lead pair. Genista monspessulana does not pick only one of those facts on Genista monspessulana.

Open the evidence table for Genista monspessulana; legal-list cited for Genista monspessulana. Keep Genista monspessulana in those jumps; do not copy the rows.

invasive risk and 1 legal list rows (WA) stay co-cited on Genista monspessulana so monspessulana is not flattened to a banner word.

Form
shrub
Rated in
Marin County, California; Tasmania, Australia
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Placement evidence
1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions
Marin County, California; Tasmania, Australia
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
  • Fire-Resistant Plants Common to Marin County · Official scoped edition
    • Marin County (CA footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2019-01-01

      The publication is explicitly limited to plants common to Marin County. FireApproved publishes 104 exact owners as Marin regional context while retaining its placement, spacing, irrigation, and maintenance boundary. It is not statewide California guidance or parcel suitability.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in CA, OR, WA.
Introduced / established
2 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Legal-list status
1 legal-list record; the Place chip matches exact scope.
Seed-list status
1 state noxious-weed seed record; the Place chip matches exact scope.
Reported invasive here
1 ecological invasive report.
How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Native and introduced range evidence

These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval. Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.

Current native

0

exact source areas

Current introduced

2

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

2 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Oregon (OR)
  • Washington (WA)

The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.

Where its sources say to plant it

Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating. They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Avoids (1)

Corroboration (1 rows from 1 source)

Mid-scale / conditional (1)

Fire-resistant shrubs instead

Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Genista monspessulana (Montpellier Broom). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/genista-monspessulana/. Last verified 2026-08-23.