Common name
English: Rock-rose
German: Gelbes Sonnenröschen
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2625)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2528)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2137)
Order: Violales (35)
Family: Cistaceae (15)(family description)
Genus: Helianthemum (2)
Epithet: nummularium (L.) Mill. (1)
Subspecies: grandiflorum (Scop.) Schinz & Thell.
grandiflorum => with flowers larger than the normal
nummularium => round and flat, like a coin
Characteristics
Climate: temperate
Habit: shrub
Flower colour: yellow