Ann Palmer Rockrose               CIS-tis

• Evergreen shrub, 3 ft × 5 ft, upright then a sprawling habit, stems and new foliage are plum colored.  Leaves opposite, simple, dark green when mature, wavy margin.  Flowers are silvery pink, crepe-paperlike petals, 6.5 cm wide, blooms May into September.
• Sun, well-drained soil.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 7      From a cross of C. ladanifer var. sulcatus and C. crispus = Cistus × fernandesiae
• Oregon State Univ., North Willamette Research and Extension Center, Aurora; a Cistus and Halimium trial was initiated in 2004.