Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Malvales > Cistaceae > Cistus > Cistus salviifolius

Cistus salviifolius (salvia cistus)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Cistus salviifolius, common names sage-leaved rock-rose, salvia cistus or Gallipoli rose, is a perennial ligneous plant of the family Cistaceae.
View Wikipedia Record: Cistus salviifolius

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Bee Flower Color [2]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [2]  White
Dispersal Mode [5]  Autochory, Ballistichory
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Bees
Structure [3]  Shrub
Usage [3]  A good ground cover plant for the milder areas of Britain; The form 'Prostratus' has been recommended;
Height [3]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [3]  30 inches (0.75 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Cistus salviifolius

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Isles of Scilly Complex 66350 England, United Kingdom    
Val Codera 2021 Italy  

Predators

Crinopteryx familiella[6]
Dichomeris limbipunctellus[6]
Eriococcus istresianus[7]
Neotelphusa cisti[6]
Stangeia siceliota[6]

Providers

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cytinus hypocistis[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 5Paula S, Arianoutsou M, Kazanis D, Tavsanoglu Ç, Lloret F, Buhk C, Ojeda F, Luna B, Moreno JM, Rodrigo A, Espelta JM, Palacio S, Fernández-Santos B, Fernandes PM, and Pausas JG. 2009. Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin. Ecology 90: 1420.
Paula S. & Pausas J.G. 2013. BROT: a plant trait database for Mediterranean Basin species. Version 2013.06.
♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0