Cistus albidus | BotanAI

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cistus albidus, photographed by Pete Bradshaw — fig. a Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205171217

Cistus albidus, photographed by luluchouette — fig. b luluchouette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204081614

Cistus albidus, photographed by Rafael Medina — fig. c Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199708606

Cistus albidus, photographed by Javier Eusamio — fig. d Javier Eusamio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197573722

Cistus albidus, photographed by Jacqueline Jeanne — fig. e Jacqueline Jeanne, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200450387

Cistus albidus, photographed by davidfdz_b82 — fig. g davidfdz_b82, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193653158

Cistus albidus, photographed by mchaquis — fig. h mchaquis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190681763

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Native distribution of Cistus albidus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Baleares	BAL	EUROPE
Corse	COR
France	FRA
Italy	ITA
Portugal	POR
Sardegna	SAR
Spain	SPA
Algeria	ALG	AFRICA
Morocco	MOR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 914 in flower of 1,216 examined

43%

64%

89%

96%

89%

69%

32%

25%

11%

28%

Proportion of examined Cistus albidus in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	22	51	43%	31% to 57%
Feb	46	72	64%	52% to 74%
Mar	193	218	89%	84% to 92%
Apr	381	397	96%	94% to 98%
May	192	216	89%	84% to 92%
Jun	44	64	69%	57% to 79%
Jul	9	28	32%	18% to 51%
Aug	0	21	0%	0% to 15%
Sep	0	28	0%	0% to 12%
Oct	8	32	25%	13% to 42%
Nov	4	35	11%	5% to 26%
Dec	15	54	28%	18% to 41%

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Cistus albidus observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 914 of 1,216 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Cistus albeerensis var. barcinonensis Sennen
Cistus albereensis Gaut. ex Rouy & Foucaud
Cistus albidus f. albus (O.E.Warb.) Dans.
Cistus albidus f. platyphyllus Sennen
Cistus albidus f. typicus Dans.
Cistus albidus var. albus O.E.Warb.
Cistus albidus var. angustifolius Sennen
Cistus albidus var. anthyllidetorum O.Bolòs & Vigo
Cistus albidus var. attenuatifolius Sennen
Cistus albidus var. grandifolius Sennen
Cistus albidus var. latifolius Sennen
Cistus albidus var. longifolius Sennen
Cistus albidus var. microcarpus Pau
Cistus albidus var. parvifolius Sennen
Cistus albidus var. stenophyllus Sennen
Cistus vulgaris var. albidus (L.) Steud.
Cistus vulgaris var. sessilifolius Spach

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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