Common name: Sage-leaf Rock Rose
Cistus salviifolius L. APNI* 
Description: Dense low shrubs to 1 m high, but often smaller, with dense stellate hairs, some parts with simple hairs.
Leaves petiolate or sessile, ± ovate, 1.5–4.5 cm long, 6–25 mm wide, dark green above, paler below; apex obtuse, rarely acute; sometimes obscurely 3-nerved at base.
Flowers 3(–5) cm diam., mostly solitary in upper axils, sometimes in a 2–5-flowered cyme; peduncles (35–)50–105 mm long; sepals 5, broadly ovate, outer sepals broader and cordate, persistent; petals obovate, c. 1.5 cm long, white, yellow at base; style to c. 0.5 mm long.
Capsule c. 6 mm long with scattered appressed silky hairs; seeds c. 1.5 mm long, dark brown, wrinkled.
Flowering: November–December, Fruits January
Distribution and occurrence: Frequently cultivated, rarely naturalized in Canberra; also naturalised in Vic.. This species is a native of Africa (Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia), Asia (Turkey) and southern Europe (from Greece to Portugal).
NSW subdivisions: *ST
Text by Description by Andre Messina and Val Stajsic. KL Wilson (Sept 2006); John Hoskings (2005); K.L.Gibbons 18 Apr. 2023.
Taxon concept: VicFlora [accessed 17 Apr. 2023].
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