| Scientific Name: | Cistus x hybridus |
| Common Name: | rock rose |
| Family Name: | Cistaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Twiggy |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Ovate, Ciliate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Yellow, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, most blades ovate, 4-6cm long x 2-3cm wide, very ruffled margins and curled tips, rough texture especially undersides, most petioles 2-3cm long; florets 3-4cm wide, 5 white petals with yellow spot at the base, many yellow stamens. | |