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Products > Halimium atriplicifolium   Halimium atriplicifolium - Yellow Rock Rose     [2nd Image] Habit and Cultural Information Category: Shrub Family: Cistaceae (Rock-roses) Origin: Spain (Europe) Flower Color: Golden Bloomtime: Spring/Summer Synonyms: [Halimium atriplexifolium] Height: 4-5 feet Width: Spreading Exposure: Full Sun Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs Winter Hardiness: 15-20° F Halimium atriplicifolium - A 4 to 6 foot tall evergreen (ever-gray) upright shrub, then somewhat sprawling with ghostly-white 1 to 2 inch long broadly-ovate leaves on stems with reddish hairs. In the spring and early summer appear 1 1/2 inch wide golden-yellow flowers in clusters of up to 8 flowers on hairy open cymes that rise above the foliage. Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil. Not as hardy as the other Rockroses and damaged in temperatures much below 28 F. This plant comes from Central and Southern Spain south to Morocco in North Africa. In an interesting coincidence the generic and specific name mean the same thing and are descriptive of this plant's silver/grey foliage. Halimium is from the Greek word 'halimos', which was the ancient Greek name of Saltbush Atriplex halimus while the specific epithet 'atriplicifolium' means "leaves like that of Saltbush" (Atriplex). Halimium and the related Cistus are both commonly called Rockrose but another name for this plant is Jara Blanca. Our original seed of this plant from Seedhunt but most recently seed and seedlings collected from the garden of Carol Bornstein.  The information provided on this page is based on research we have conducted about this plant in our nursery's library, from what we have found about it on reliable online sources, as well as from observations in our nursery of crops of this plant as well as of plants growing in the nursery's garden and those in other gardens. We will also incorporate comments received from others and welcome getting feedback from anyone who may have additional information, particularly if it includes cultural information that would aid others in growing  Halimium atriplicifolium.     [MORE INFO]