Gorse

a thorny shrub of the pea family, also called furze and whin. Gorse grows abundantly on the hills of northern England and Scotland. It is a bushy plant, two to four feet high, with narrow, dark, evergreen-like leaves, and a wealth of two-lipped yellow flowers. Scott, Stevenson, and other writers of Scottish adventure make much of hiding in the whin. This is the plant from which the gooseberry or gorseberry is named. See Broom; Gooseberry