Jack Dykinga / Joshua Trees (Yucca brevifolia) of the Mojave Desert at dawn encircled with flowering lupines. (Lupinus sp,) Mohave County, Castaneda Wash, Arizona, USA.

Guy Edwardes / Gorse (Ulex europaeus)on cliffs above St Oswald's Bay, Dorset, England, UK, May 2013.

Guy Edwardes / Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) and Gorse (Ulex europaeus) on Corfe Common, Corfe Castle in background, Dorset, England, UK. May 2017.

Andres M. Dominguez / Blue lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, southern Spain, May.

Bruno D'Amicis / Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) adult at night digging for prey among the roots of Retam broom shrub. Grand Erg Oriental, Kebili Governorate, Tunisia. Taken with remote camera trap.

Pat Tuson / Wild Perennial Lupin (Lupinus perennis) Gillespie Park Local Nature Reserve an urban ecology park with tower blocks in background, Highbury, London Borough of Islington, England UK

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lilja / Spiny broom (Calicotome villosa) flowers, Omalos, Crete, Greece, April 2009

Jose B. Ruiz / Landscape / habitat of the Spanish ibex in Avila province , Spain - Yellow broom {Cytisus praecox}

Duncan Mcewan / Broom flower with seed pod (Cytisus scoparius). Scotland, UK, Europe

Jasper Doest / Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) singing on broom, Vancouver, Canada

Nick Upton / Knapweed broomrape (Orobanche elatior), close up of flower spike. Wiltshire, England, UK. June.

Nick Upton / Knapweed broomrape (Orobanche elatior). Wiltshire, England, UK. June.

Nick Upton / Knapweed broomrape (Orobanche elatior) growing as parasite below Greater knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa), in chalk grassland. Box, Wiltshire, England, UK. June.

Nick Upton / Knapweed broomrape (Orobanche elatior) growing as parasite beside Greater knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa), in chalk grassland. Box, Wiltshire, England, UK. June.

Linda Pitkin / Knapweed broomrape (Orobanche elatior). Epsom Downs, Surrey, England, UK. June.

Linda Pitkin / Knapweed broomrape (Orobanche elatior) in grassland. Epsom Downs, Surrey, England, UK. June.

Linda Pitkin / Knapweed broomrape (Orobanche elatior), close up. Howell Hill Surrey Wildlife Trust Reserve, England, UK. June.

Linda Pitkin / Knapweed broomrape (Orobanche elatior). Howell Hill Surrey Wildlife Trust Reserve, England, UK. June.

Linda Pitkin / Knapweed broomrape (Orobanche elatior). Howell Hill Surrey Wildlife Trust Reserve, England, UK. June.

Linda Pitkin / Knapweed broomrape (Orobanche elatior). Howell Hill Surrey Wildlife Trust Reserve, England, UK. June.

Nick Upton / Gorse shieldbug (Piezodorus lituratus) well camouflaged on a Common gorse bush (Ulex europaeus), Dorset heathland, UK, July.

Philippe Clement / Bell heather (Erica cinerea) and Western gorse / Dwarf furze (Ulex gallii) in flower in summer, Normandy, France. August

Oscar Dewhurst / Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) male singing from flowering gorse (Ulex) bush. Suffolk, England, UK. March

Adrian Davies / Common dodder (Cuscuta epithymum) growing parasitically on Gorse (Ulex sp) along the coast, Cornwall, England, UK. July 2020.

Adrian Davies / Gorse (Ulex sp) regrowth on charred ground, two weeks after wildfire. Thursley National Nature Reserve, Surrey, England, UK. July 2020.

Oscar Dewhurst / Common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) male singing from flowering gorse bush (Ulex). Suffolk, UK. May.

Nigel Cattlin / Common broomrape (Orobanche minor) flowering. A parasitic plant on clovers and also members of the daisy family.

Nigel Cattlin / Witch's or witches' broom (Taphrina betulina) deformed clumps of twigs on Silver birch tree in winter, Berkshire, February

Mick Jenner / Dartford warbler (Sylvia undata) singing from a gorse bush, Dorset, England, UK, April.

Linda Pitkin / Butcher's-broom (Ruscus aculeatus). Box Hill, Surrey, England, UK. March.

Linda Pitkin / Butcher's-broom (Ruscus aculeatus). Box Hill, Surrey, England, UK. March.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Millet plantation, Guera Mountains, southern Chad. September 2019.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Millet plantation, Guera Mountains, southern Chad. September 2019.

Linda Pitkin / Dwarf gorse (Ulex minor) Henley Park Range, Surrey, England, September.

Linda Pitkin / Butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus) flower, Box Hill, Surrey, England, February 2019.

Linda Pitkin / Common broomrape (Orobanche minor) Howell Hill SWT Nature Reserve, Surrey, England, June.

Linda Pitkin / Common broomrape (Orobanche minor ) South West Coast Path?, , near Plymouth, Devon, England, July.

Linda Pitkin / Dyer's greenweed (Genista tinctoria), Langford Lakes Nature Reserve, Wiltshire, England, July 2014.

Linda Pitkin / Dyer's greenweed (Genista tinctoria), in flower, Langford Lakes Nature Reserve, Wiltshire, England, July.

Guy Edwardes / Gorse (Ulex europaeus) landscape, St Oswald's Bay, Dorset, England, UK, May 2013.

Klein & Hubert / European ground squirrel / Souslik (Spermophius citellus) eating flowers of Broom (Cytisus sp) , Hungary

Klein & Hubert / European ground squirrel / Souslik (Spermophius citellus) eating flowers of Broom (Cytisus sp) , Hungary

Klein & Hubert / European ground squirrel / Souslik (Spermophius citellus) eating flowers of Broom (Cytisus sp) , Hungary

Klein & Hubert / European ground squirrel / Souslik (Spermophius citellus) eating flowers of Broom (Cytisus sp) , Hungary

Klein & Hubert / Common black donkey on mountain pasture with flowering broom in spring, France.

Klein & Hubert / Common black donkey on mountain pasture with flowering broom in spring, France.

Klein & Hubert / Common black donkey on mountain pasture with flowering broom in spring, France.

Klein & Hubert / Common black donkey on mountain pasture with flowering broom in spring, France.