Base-broom "Golden" (dyer's greenweed, waxen woad, wede-wixen, woodwaxen, woud-wix)

Fruit - narrow-oblong, laterally compressed bean.
Light-loving, drought-resistant and quite winter-hardy in Estonia (in cold, snowless winters it freezes significantly, but quickly recovers and blooms). Prefers dry, sandy, infertile, limed soils, although it can withstand prolonged flooding. Flowering worsens on fertile soils. 
Genista tinctoria is propagated by seeds and cuttings, which take root with difficulty without the use of stimulants. Seedlings begin to bear fruit at the age of two. If seeds are not required, the stems on which the flowers were are cut after flowering to stimulate abundant flowering the following year.
Dyer's broom is used in landscaping in the form of small groups, it looks especially good on slopes, rocky areas, in rock gardens and borders, as well as near small trees or tall bushes that bloom simultaneously or alternately and combine beautifully with each other not only in flowering, but also in the shape and color of the leaves.
* Previously, a stable yellow dye for linen and silk fabrics was obtained from the shoots, leaves and flowers of broom, and the flexible stems of the bush were used for weaving.

Eng.: Dyer's greenweed, base-broom, dyer's broom, dyer's greenwood, dyer's weed, greenweed, waxen woad, wede-wixen, woodwaxen, woud-wix. Bot. syn.: Genista depressa M.B.,Bot. syn.: Genista alpestris Bertol., Genista anxantica Ten., Genista borysthenica Kotov, Genista campestris Janka.