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Article: GARDENING : SUN-LOVING, FLOWERY ROCKROSE GAINS CALIFORNIA FOOTHOLD.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- April 27, 1996
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Byline: Joshua Siskin
If there's one plant that behaves in every way like a California native, but isn't one, it's the rockrose.
For years, I assumed rockrose (Cistus spp.) was a native because I had seen it growing on rough embankments along freeways near Pasadena and Santa Clarita. The terrains were so steep and the soil appeared so poor that I could not imagine how any plant, excepting a native, could grow there.
To this day, I wonder how these plants got started. Did someone carry rockroses up these embankments riding on a mule, or could these be windblown volunteers, the results of seeds that just happened to find the right cracks in the ...