Sprig of broom (Period)

The broom plant is a brushy wild shrub, with prominent peascods.  It was used as the canting badge (Latin planta genista) of the Plantagenets temp. Henry II [HB 108].  (The term should not be used for the modern floor-sweeping tool, which is properly called a besom.)  See also slip.

Emrys Eustace bears:  Or, three sprigs of broom gules.