Cistus albidus - Grey-leaved cistus

Grey-leaved cistus (Cistus albidus) is an evergreen shrub native to the Mediterranean basin, grown for its grey-green foliage and pink flowers on dry, sunny, well-drained sites.

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹

Outputs

• Human food¹

Type

• Shrub
• Evergreen
• Perennial

Functions

• Pollination¹
• Drought-tolerance¹
• Flammable²

Footnotes

1. Cistus albidus | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

2. Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, “Wildland Urban Interface Vegetation Lists,” 2021 (https://web.archive.org/web/20250504084353/https://ccfd.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CCFD-WUI-Vegetation-Lists-2021.pdf), rates “Cistus Spp.” genus-wide as requiring 30ft structure clearance; cone-calorimeter testing of the congeners C. ladanifer and C. salviifolius (White, R.H. & Zipperer, W.C., International Journal of Wildland Fire 19(2), 2010, Table 6, after Weise et al. 2005) found both readily sustained ignition ↩