Definitions for: Rockrose

[n] small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage
[n] any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small roselike yellow or white or reddish flowers

Webster (1913) Definition: Rock"rose`, n. (Bot.)
A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low
shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European
H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense.

Cretan rockrose, a related shrub (Cistus Creticus), one
of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.

Synonyms: rock rose

See Also: bush, Cistus, Cistus albidus, Cistus ladanifer, Cistus ladanum, common gum cistus, genus Cistus, helianthemum, shrub, sun rose, sunrose, white-leaved rockrose

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