Scientific Name: Cistus x pulverulentus 'Sunset'
Common Name: Sunset 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 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width)
Habit: Dense
Form: Mounded
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Perennial border, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Elliptic, Ciliate, Entire
Flowers: Magenta, Jun-Jul-Aug
Fruit:
Key ID Features:
Low, spreading shrub; Leaves simple, opposite, wavy margin, grey-green; flowers 5cm wide with yellow centres and 5 pink petals (each last one day but continues throughout the summer).