Cistus monspeliensis Montpelier rock rose Care Plant.
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Montpellier Cistus (Cistus monspeliensis) Present distribution. Scientific name: Cistus monspeliensis L. Common name(s): Montpellier Cistus, Rockrose: Map showing the present distribution of this weed. Habitat: Native to Southern Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia. Reported invading pasture, and present in scrubland and pine plantations.
Distribution and habitat. Cistus laurifolius has a disjunct natural distribution, in the Western Mediterranean area (Morocco, Portugal, Spain, southern France, Corsica and Tuscany), the Aegean (clarification needed) and Anatolia. With the general warming of the atmosphere and the consequent withdrawal of the ice, flora surviving from Tertiary times could not re-establish their range in.
Sorting out the Cistus Above: Cistus clothes an Algarve slope. Picture: Rob Petley-Jones. From April onwards large areas of the Algarve are dominated by the flowering of the many species of Cistus that flourish on hill slopes, in abandoned farmland and along the coastal strip.
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Cistus (from the Greek kistos) is a genus of flowering plants in the rockrose family Cistaceae, containing about 20 species (Ellul et al. 2002). They are perennial shrubs found on dry or rocky soils throughout the Mediterranean region, from Morocco and Portugal through to the Middle East, and also on the Canary Islands. Cistus, with its many hybrids and cultivars, is commonly encountered as a.
Canary Island endemic pine forests Forests of endemic (Pinus canariensis), of the dry montane level at around 800 to 2000 metres (locally down to 500 and up to 2500 metres) in Tenerife, La Palma, Gran Canaria and Hierro, with (Chamaecytisus proliferus, Adenocarpus foliolosus, Cistus symphytifolius, Lotus campylocladus, Lotus hillebrandii, Lotus spartioides, Daphne gnidium, Juniperus cedrus.