Meanings of prickly gorse in English

The grass is full of that horrid prickly gorse.'

Recent attempts to emulate Scotland's picturesque heaths by removing livestock proved futile, as bracken and prickly gorse appeared rather than purple heather.

All around, the ground is olive-coloured with unblossomed heath, bright and golden here and there with the flowerets of the prickly gorse.

Loch Vennachar lies between hills of comparatively gentle declivity, pastured by flocks, and tufted with patches of the prickly gorse and coarse ferns.

A swarthy and ill-favoured wight he was, with a beard, as the story goes, that would have swept off the prickly gorse-bush in its progress.