Cistus clusii | BotanAI

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cistus clusii, photographed by Rafael Medina — fig. a Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 199707714

Cistus clusii, photographed by Marc Riera — fig. b Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196798347

Cistus clusii, photographed by Javier Eusamio — fig. c Javier Eusamio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187578493

Cistus clusii, photographed by Rhonda Ridley — fig. d Rhonda Ridley, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 175136335

Cistus clusii, photographed by Abdenour Kheloufi — fig. e Abdenour Kheloufi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132831153

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Native distribution of Cistus clusii, 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
Italy	ITA
Portugal	POR
Sicilia	SIC
Spain	SPA
Algeria	ALG	AFRICA
Morocco	MOR
Tunisia	TUN

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 136 in flower of 168 examined

38%

67%

93%

94%

80%

Proportion of examined Cistus clusii in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	2	too few examined
Feb	3	8	38%	14% to 69%
Mar	16	24	67%	47% to 82%
Apr	68	73	93%	85% to 97%
May	44	47	94%	83% to 98%
Jun	4	5	80%	38% to 96%
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	3	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	1	too few examined
Nov	0	2	too few examined
Dec	0	3	too few examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Cistus clusii 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. 136 of 168 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 22 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 clusii subsp. multiflorus Demoly
Cistus clusii var. fastigiatus (Guss.) Nyman
Cistus clusii var. grandiflorus Willk.
Cistus clusii var. multiflorus (Demoly) Romo
Cistus clusii var. parviflorus Willk.
Cistus clusii var. pruinosus Willk.
Cistus clusii var. sedjera (Pomel) Batt.
Cistus clusii var. viridis Willk.
Cistus fastigiatus Guss.
Cistus libanotis var. fastigiatus (Guss.) Laza
Cistus libanotis var. pruinosus (Willk.) Maire
Cistus libanotis var. sedjera (Pomel) Emb. & Maire
Cistus libanotis var. segobricensis Sennen & Pau
Cistus libanotis var. viridis (Willk.) Jahand. & Maire
Cistus pruinosus (Willk.) Dans.
Cistus rorismarinifolius Pourr. ex Timb.-Lagr.
Cistus rosmarinifolius Pourr.
Cistus rosmarinifolius var. sedjera (Pomel) Grosser
Cistus sedjera Pomel
Halimium clusii Spach
Halimium umbellatum var. bianorii Sennen
Helianthemum libanotis Guss.

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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