Cistus populifoliusL.

WFO wfo-0000607532 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cistus populifolius, photographed by Elizabete Marchante
fig. a Elizabete Marchante, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 192243424
Cistus populifolius, photographed by Noa
fig. b Noa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174741653
Cistus populifolius, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. c Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156156853
Cistus populifolius, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. d Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154712726
Cistus populifolius, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. e Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151358741
Cistus populifolius, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. f Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160805568
Cistus populifolius, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. g Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62997089
Cistus populifolius, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. h Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62037768

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
3916537
Filed as
Cistus populifolius L.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Cistus populifolius is native: Morocco, France, Portugal, Spain MoroccoFrancePortugalSpain
Native distribution of Cistus populifolius, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
France FRA EUROPE
Portugal POR
Spain SPA
Morocco MOR AFRICA

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 660 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 0.0 °C 3.5 °C 7.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.3 °C 30.1 °C 32.6 °C
Annual rainfall 560 mm 752 mm 1,253 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 17 mm 40 mm 101 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 660 research-grade observations of Cistus populifolius that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 19 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 cordifolius Moench
  • Cistus latifolius Sweet
  • Cistus polymorphus var. lasiocalyx (Willk.) Willk.
  • Cistus populifolius f. lasiocalyx Willk.
  • Cistus populifolius f. marianus Willk.
  • Cistus populifolius f. narbonensis (Willk.) Grosser
  • Cistus populifolius f. narbonnensis Willk.
  • Cistus populifolius prol. narbonensis (Willk.) Rouy & Foucaud
  • Cistus populifolius var. celtibericus Pau
  • Cistus populifolius var. lasiocalyx Willk.
  • Cistus populifolius var. major Dunal
  • Cistus populifolius var. marianus Willk.
  • Cistus populifolius var. minor Dunal
  • Cistus populifolius var. narbonensis Willk.
  • Cistus populifolius var. psilocalyx Willk.
  • Ledonia populifolia Spach
  • Ledonia populifolia var. cordifolia Spach
  • Ledonia populifolia var. longifolia Spach
  • Libanotis populifolius Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.