[3] The flowers are cleistogamous,[4] producing little pollen and no nectar, and attracting few insect visitors,[5] and the petals fall off after only a few hours.

[6] In California, T. guttata has become naturalised in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada on the eastern edge of the Sacramento Valley.

[4] In the Mediterranean region, T. guttata is common in arid habitats from woodlands to grasslands and roadsides.

[5] In the British Isles, it grows "in bare patches of thin, dry soil overlying hard igneous rock in open areas within wind-cut heath near the sea".

[7] Tuberaria guttata was first described by Carl Linnaeus as "Cistus guttatus" in his 1753 work Species Plantarum.