Salvia cistus
സിസ്റ്റസ് സാൽവിഫോളിയസ്
Cistus salviifolius L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 56 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Cistaceae
Formerly Cistus apricus, Cistus arrigens, Cistus elegans, Cistus fruticans, and 17 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SC. Europe, Medit. to NW. IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 51 cm to 61 cmRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; Wikipedia 30–60 cm
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: RHS medium; Wikipedia low
- Coldest it survives
- -10 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Asturian
- carpizu moriscu
- Catalan
- Estepa borrera
- Czech
- cist šalvějolistý
- German
- Salbeiblättrige Zistrose
- Spanish
- Jaguarzo morisco
- Finnish
- Salviakistus
- Galician
- Carpaza moura
- Portuguese
- Saganho-mouro
- Slovenian
- kaduljelistni brškin
- Turkish
- Adaçayı yapraklı laden
- Chinese
- 丹参叶岩蔷薇, 鼠尾草叶岩蔷薇
- Malayalam
- സിസ്റ്റസ് സാൽവിഫോളിയസ്
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Cistus salviifolius (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.