Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, 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.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 16 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Cyprus | CYP | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Iraq | IRQ | |
| Lebanon-Syria | LBS | |
| Oman | OMA | |
| Palestine | PAL | |
| Sinai | SIN | |
| Türkiye | TUR | |
| Yemen | YEM | |
| Algeria | ALG | AFRICA |
| Djibouti | DJI | |
| Egypt | EGY | |
| Libya | LBY | |
| Morocco | MOR | |
| Somalia | SOM | |
| Tunisia | TUN | |
| Greece | GRC | EUROPE |
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 219 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 7.7 °C | 10.6 °C | 11.8 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 28.3 °C | 30.3 °C | 32.7 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 380 mm | 612 mm | 821 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 2 mm | 3 mm | 13 mm |
It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 219 research-grade observations of Helianthemum stipulatum 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 15 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 rosmarinifolius Salisb.
- Cistus stipulatus Forssk.
- Halimium libanotis Lange
- Halimium rosmarinifolium Spach
- Helianthemon libanotum St.-Lag.
- Helianthemum argyreum Baker
- Helianthemum ehrenbergii Willk.
- Helianthemum libanotis Willd.
- Helianthemum lippii var. ehrenbergii (Willk.) Boiss.
- Helianthemum lisbonense Samp.
- Helianthemum rosmarinifolium Lag. ex Dunal
- Helianthemum rosmarinifolium subsp. ehrenbergii (Willk.) Murb.
- Helianthemum rosmarinifolium var. ehrenbergii (Willk.) Pamp.
- Helianthemum splendens Pourr. ex Nyman
- Libanotis umbellata Raf.
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.
- USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol HERO2. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.