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Hoary Rock-rose

Cistus creticus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) patrick_masek, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.

California	1,704
United States	1,654
Italy	1,409
Greece	1,343
Turkey	790
Centro	609
Croatia	471
Isole	400
Sud	366
Israel	320

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
Material useListed as being used for materials such as wood, fiber, resin, gum, or oil.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies · Malvales
Family	rock-rose family · Cistaceae
Genus	Shrubby Rock-roses · Cistus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Hoary Rock-rose with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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