Helianthemum croceum(Desf.) Pers.

WFO wfo-0000717403 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Helianthemum croceum, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. a Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-16 / obs. 67194197

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04962004
Filed as
Helianthemum croceum subsp. croceum
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
J. B. Saint-Lager 1909-07-08
Origin
DZ
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Helianthemum croceum is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, France, Italy, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaFranceItalyPortugalSiciliaSpain Sardegna
Native distribution of Helianthemum croceum, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
France FRA EUROPE
Italy ITA
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
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.

Also published as 53 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.

  • Anthelis glaucus (Pers.) Raf.
  • Cistus croceus Desf.
  • Cistus glaucus Cav.
  • Cistus scorpioides Desf. ex Steud.
  • Helianthemum apenninum subsp. croceum (Desf.) G.López
  • Helianthemum apenninum subsp. suffruticosum (Boiss.) G.López
  • Helianthemum apenninum var. croceum (Desf.) Pau
  • Helianthemum apenninum var. gossypinum Pau
  • Helianthemum arcuatum C.Presl
  • Helianthemum bicolor C.Presl
  • Helianthemum cinereum f. leucanthum Pau
  • Helianthemum clausonis Pomel
  • Helianthemum croceum subsp. suffruticosum (Boiss.) Raynaud
  • Helianthemum croceum var. albiflorum (Boiss.) Emb. & Maire
  • Helianthemum croceum var. antiatlanticum (Emb. & Maire) Maire
  • Helianthemum croceum var. clausonis (Pomel) Emb. & Maire
  • Helianthemum croceum var. flavum (Willk.) Emb. & Maire
  • Helianthemum croceum var. stenophyllum (Maire) Emb. & Maire
  • Helianthemum croceum var. suffruticosum (Boiss.) Sauvage
  • Helianthemum croceum var. tananicum (Maire) Emb. & Maire
  • Helianthemum croceum var. virens (Maire) Emb. & Maire
  • Helianthemum cuatrecasasii Pau
  • Helianthemum estevei subsp. suffruticosum (Boiss.) Rivas Mart.
  • Helianthemum glaucum Pers.

and 29 more.

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.

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