| 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: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Elliptic, Ciliate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Pink, Magenta, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Aborted (hybrids) or absent |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Low, spreading shrub; leaves opposite, most elliptic, 4-5cm long x 1.2-2cm wide, margin wavy, pubescent, grey-green; flowers 3-4cm wide with yellow centres and 5 pink petals (each last one day but continues throughout the summer). | |