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Grey-leaved rockrose

Cistus albidus · Cistaceae · all Cistus records

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1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence: Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions: No test or rating condition is normalized.
Fire ecology context: No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
Placement evidence: 0 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions: Global; Mediterranean France / Provence
Maintenance: No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution: No state distribution is normalized.
Native range: No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
Introduced / established: No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
USDA hardiness: No hardiness value is normalized.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Legal-list status: Set a location for an exact legal-list result; source silence is not clearance.
Seed-list status: Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
Reported invasive here: No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
Broader regional context: Aggregate AK, HI, and L48 evidence is shown only as regional context, never as an exact-state finding.
Federal context: Federal designations remain separate from state legal-list results.

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The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Grey-leaved rockrose (Cistus albidus) — Photo: (c) zebedeugalinha, some rights reserved (CC BY) (CC BY), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.

Form: shrub
Region: France; Mediterranean France; Morocco; Spain
Rated in: Global; Mediterranean France / Provence
Family: Cistaceae
Evidence: 33 cited sources

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Mid-scale / conditional (1)

Inflammabilités des espèces forestières méditerranéennes (Valette 1990) — INRA Station de Sylviculture méditerranéenne, Avignon (Revue Forestière Française XLII) · 1990 · original source Primary evidence Lab-tested lineage: inra-tree

“INRA inflammability note 3 of 5 (July-September maximum)” · score 3 (inra-0-5)

Monthly inflammability notes May-April: 0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 (epiradiator tests, INRA Avignon).

Source wording: “inflammable”

Listed without a rating (32)

FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

32 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “temperature at smouldering (°C): 236.8” · score 236.8 (FLAMITS — temperature at smouldering (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 107; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alessio2008a-1; sampling november. Primary study Alessio2008b: Alessio, G. A., Peñuelas, J., Llusià, J., Ogaya, R., Estiarte, M., & De Lillis, M. (2008). Influence of water and terpenes on flammability in some dominant Mediterranean species. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17, 274.
- “temperature at smouldering (°C): 282.15” · score 282.15 (FLAMITS — temperature at smouldering (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 108; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alessio2008a-1; sampling january. Primary study Alessio2008b: Alessio, G. A., Peñuelas, J., Llusià, J., Ogaya, R., Estiarte, M., & De Lillis, M. (2008). Influence of water and terpenes on flammability in some dominant Mediterranean species. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17, 274.
- “temperature at smouldering (°C): 292.75” · score 292.75 (FLAMITS — temperature at smouldering (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 109; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alessio2008a-1; sampling may. Primary study Alessio2008b: Alessio, G. A., Peñuelas, J., Llusià, J., Ogaya, R., Estiarte, M., & De Lillis, M. (2008). Influence of water and terpenes on flammability in some dominant Mediterranean species. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17, 274.
- “temperature at smouldering (°C): 201.49” · score 201.49 (FLAMITS — temperature at smouldering (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 110; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alessio2008a-1; sampling june. Primary study Alessio2008b: Alessio, G. A., Peñuelas, J., Llusià, J., Ogaya, R., Estiarte, M., & De Lillis, M. (2008). Influence of water and terpenes on flammability in some dominant Mediterranean species. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17, 274.
- “temperature at smouldering (°C): 208.64” · score 208.64 (FLAMITS — temperature at smouldering (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 111; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alessio2008a-1; sampling july. Primary study Alessio2008b: Alessio, G. A., Peñuelas, J., Llusià, J., Ogaya, R., Estiarte, M., & De Lillis, M. (2008). Influence of water and terpenes on flammability in some dominant Mediterranean species. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17, 274.
- “smouldering duration (s): 230.39” · score 230.39 (FLAMITS — smouldering duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 127; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alessio2008a-1; sampling november. Primary study Alessio2008b: Alessio, G. A., Peñuelas, J., Llusià, J., Ogaya, R., Estiarte, M., & De Lillis, M. (2008). Influence of water and terpenes on flammability in some dominant Mediterranean species. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17, 274.
- “smouldering duration (s): 269.89” · score 269.89 (FLAMITS — smouldering duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 128; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alessio2008a-1; sampling january. Primary study Alessio2008b: Alessio, G. A., Peñuelas, J., Llusià, J., Ogaya, R., Estiarte, M., & De Lillis, M. (2008). Influence of water and terpenes on flammability in some dominant Mediterranean species. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17, 274.
- “smouldering duration (s): 250.66” · score 250.66 (FLAMITS — smouldering duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 129; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alessio2008a-1; sampling may. Primary study Alessio2008b: Alessio, G. A., Peñuelas, J., Llusià, J., Ogaya, R., Estiarte, M., & De Lillis, M. (2008). Influence of water and terpenes on flammability in some dominant Mediterranean species. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17, 274.
- “smouldering duration (s): 138.76” · score 138.76 (FLAMITS — smouldering duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 130; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alessio2008a-1; sampling june. Primary study Alessio2008b: Alessio, G. A., Peñuelas, J., Llusià, J., Ogaya, R., Estiarte, M., & De Lillis, M. (2008). Influence of water and terpenes on flammability in some dominant Mediterranean species. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17, 274.
- “smouldering duration (s): 140.46” · score 140.46 (FLAMITS — smouldering duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 131; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alessio2008a-1; sampling july. Primary study Alessio2008b: Alessio, G. A., Peñuelas, J., Llusià, J., Ogaya, R., Estiarte, M., & De Lillis, M. (2008). Influence of water and terpenes on flammability in some dominant Mediterranean species. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17, 274.
- “flammability value: 9.22” · score 9.22 (FLAMITS — flammability value)
  
  FLAMITS record 3306; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel all; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Essaghi2017-3; sampling january. Primary study Essaghi2017: Essaghi, S., Hachmi, M. H., Yessef, M., Dehhaoui, M., & El Amarty, F. (2017). Assessment of Flammability of Moroccan Forest Fuels: New Approach to Estimate the Flammability Index. Forests, 8, 443.
- “flammability value: 14.33” · score 14.33 (FLAMITS — flammability value)
  
  FLAMITS record 3319; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel all; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Essaghi2017-3; sampling january. Primary study Essaghi2017: Essaghi, S., Hachmi, M. H., Yessef, M., Dehhaoui, M., & El Amarty, F. (2017). Assessment of Flammability of Moroccan Forest Fuels: New Approach to Estimate the Flammability Index. Forests, 8, 443.
- “time to flaming (s): 4.7” · score 4.7 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4700; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Hachmi2011-1; sampling ND. Primary study Hachmi2011: Hachmi, M. H., Sesbou, A., Benjelloun, H., El Handouz, N., & Bouanane, F. (2011). A Simple Technique to Estimate the Flammability Index of Moroccan Forest Fuels. Journal of Combustion, 2011, 1-11.
- “flame height (cm): 15” · score 15 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 4735; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Hachmi2011-1; sampling ND. Primary study Hachmi2011: Hachmi, M. H., Sesbou, A., Benjelloun, H., El Handouz, N., & Bouanane, F. (2011). A Simple Technique to Estimate the Flammability Index of Moroccan Forest Fuels. Journal of Combustion, 2011, 1-11.
- “burning duration (s): 13.8” · score 13.8 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4736; Sustainability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Hachmi2011-1; sampling ND. Primary study Hachmi2011: Hachmi, M. H., Sesbou, A., Benjelloun, H., El Handouz, N., & Bouanane, F. (2011). A Simple Technique to Estimate the Flammability Index of Moroccan Forest Fuels. Journal of Combustion, 2011, 1-11.
- “flammability value: 2.16” · score 2.16 (FLAMITS — flammability value)
  
  FLAMITS record 4798; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Hachmi2011-1; sampling ND. Primary study Hachmi2011: Hachmi, M. H., Sesbou, A., Benjelloun, H., El Handouz, N., & Bouanane, F. (2011). A Simple Technique to Estimate the Flammability Index of Moroccan Forest Fuels. Journal of Combustion, 2011, 1-11.
- “time to flaming (s): 2.37” · score 2.37 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 9895; Ignitability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying yes; device epiradiator; site Ormeno2009-2; sampling june. Primary study Ormeno2009: Ormeno, E., Cespedes, B., Sanchez, I.A., Velasco-Garcia, A., Moreno, J.M., Fernandez, C., & Baldy, V. (2009). The relationship between terpenes and flammability of leaf litter. Forest Ecology and Management, 257, 471-482.
- “burning duration (s): 10.35” · score 10.35 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 9901; Sustainability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying yes; device epiradiator; site Ormeno2009-2; sampling june. Primary study Ormeno2009: Ormeno, E., Cespedes, B., Sanchez, I.A., Velasco-Garcia, A., Moreno, J.M., Fernandez, C., & Baldy, V. (2009). The relationship between terpenes and flammability of leaf litter. Forest Ecology and Management, 257, 471-482.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 525.43” · score 525.43 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 12127; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-1; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 556.5” · score 556.5 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 12145; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-2; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
- “flaming duration (s): 255.4” · score 255.4 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12157; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-1; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
- “flaming duration (s): 360” · score 360 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12179; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-2; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
- “time to smoke (s): 92.2” · score 92.2 (FLAMITS — time to smoke (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12191; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-1; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
- “time to smoke (s): 103.4” · score 103.4 (FLAMITS — time to smoke (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12213; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-2; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
- “temperature at smoke (°C): 152.13” · score 152.13 (FLAMITS — temperature at smoke (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 12228; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-1; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
- “temperature at smoke (°C): 163.4” · score 163.4 (FLAMITS — temperature at smoke (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 12250; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-2; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
- “time to smouldering (s): 230” · score 230 (FLAMITS — time to smouldering (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12264; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-1; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
- “time to smouldering (s): 237.6” · score 237.6 (FLAMITS — time to smouldering (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12286; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-2; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
- “temperature at smouldering (°C): 345” · score 345 (FLAMITS — temperature at smouldering (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 12300; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-1; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
- “temperature at smouldering (°C): 380.6” · score 380.6 (FLAMITS — temperature at smouldering (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 12322; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-2; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
- “flammability value: 0” · score 0 (FLAMITS — flammability value)
  
  FLAMITS record 13315; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Valette1990-1; sampling june to september. Primary study Valette1990: Valette, J.-C. (1990). Flammabilities of Mediterranean forest species. Effects on the combustibility of the forest communities inflammabilités des espèces forestières méditerranéennes. Conséquences sur la combustibilité des formations forestières. Revue forestière française, 42, 76-92.
- “flammability value: 3” · score 3 (FLAMITS — flammability value)
  
  FLAMITS record 13316; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Valette1990-1; sampling june to september. Primary study Valette1990: Valette, J.-C. (1990). Flammabilities of Mediterranean forest species. Effects on the combustibility of the forest communities inflammabilités des espèces forestières méditerranéennes. Conséquences sur la combustibilité des formations forestières. Revue forestière française, 42, 76-92.

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Cistus albidus (Grey-leaved rockrose). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/cistus-albidus/. Last verified 2026-08-23.