Tuberaria guttata(L.) Fourr.

European frostweedspotted rock-rose

WFO wfo-0000406595 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tuberaria guttata, photographed by Vicente Lopes
fig. a Vicente Lopes, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 202971856
Tuberaria guttata, photographed by Jacqueline Jeanne
fig. b Jacqueline Jeanne, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201587486
Tuberaria guttata, photographed by davidfdz_b82
fig. c davidfdz_b82, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193573134
Tuberaria guttata, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. d Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190930386
Tuberaria guttata, photographed by Mirela
fig. e Mirela, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196752867
Tuberaria guttata, photographed by bigayon
fig. f bigayon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190301077
Tuberaria guttata, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. g Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187315236
Tuberaria guttata, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. h Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183120806

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Tuberaria guttata is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, Netherlands, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaCorseFranceGermanyGreeceIrelandItalyKritiNetherlandsNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Canary Is.BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Tuberaria guttata, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Netherlands NET
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Türkiye TUR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 594 in flower of 605 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Tuberaria guttata 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. 594 of 605 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 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 124 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 cistifolius Steud.
  • Cistus foetidus Jacq.
  • Cistus guttatus L.
  • Cistus immaculatum Steud.
  • Cistus lanceolatus Vahl
  • Cistus obscurus Steud.
  • Cistus piluliferus Thibaud ex Dunal
  • Cistus punctatus Willd.
  • Cistus sampsucifolius Sims
  • Cistus serratifolius Lamb. ex Dunal
  • Cistus serratus Cav.
  • Cistus splendens Lam.
  • Cistus sulphureus Steud.
  • Cistus teretifolius Thibaud ex Dunal
  • Halimium alyssoides Lamotte
  • Helianthemum alyssoides Pesn. ex Nyman
  • Helianthemum breweri Planch.
  • Helianthemum discolor Pomel
  • Helianthemum eriocaulon Dunal
  • Helianthemum guttatum (L.) Mill.
  • Helianthemum guttatum f. minor Samp.
  • Helianthemum guttatum f. patulum (Pomel) Batt.
  • Helianthemum guttatum prol. littorale Rouy & Foucaud
  • Helianthemum guttatum prol. milleri Rouy & Foucaud

and 100 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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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