diff --git a/src/__tests__/native/components.test.tsx b/src/__tests__/native/components.test.tsx
index 3a596038..218b8fe8 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/native/components.test.tsx
+++ b/src/__tests__/native/components.test.tsx
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 import {
   Button as RNButton,
   TextInput as RNTextInput,
+  View as RNView,
   type ButtonProps,
   type TextInputProps,
+  type ViewProps,
 } from "react-native";
 
 import { render } from "@testing-library/react-native";
 import { copyComponentProperties } from "react-native-css/components/copyComponentProperties";
 import { TextInput } from "react-native-css/components/TextInput";
 import { registerCSS, testID } from "react-native-css/jest";
-import { useCssElement } from "react-native-css/native";
+import { styled, useCssElement } from "react-native-css/native";
 import type {
   StyledConfiguration,
   StyledProps,
@@ -114,3 +116,177 @@ test("nativeStyleMapping with boolean true on custom component", () => {
   expect(component.props.textAlign).toBe("right");
   expect(component.props.style).not.toHaveProperty("textAlign");
 });
+
+/**
+ * A component with props of its own for a `target: false` config to write into.
+ *
+ * `nativeStyleMapping` is typed against the target component's props, so the defect below is only
+ * expressible on a component that HAS the props being mapped to — which is also exactly who it
+ * bites. Every shipped component is either bare-string or `{ target: "style" }`; the one exception,
+ * `Button`, maps `{ color: "color" }` onto a component that ignores an unknown `style` prop.
+ */
+interface LabelledProps extends ViewProps {
+  readonly labelColor?: string;
+  readonly badgeColor?: string;
+}
+
+const Labelled = (props: LabelledProps) => <RNView {...props} />;
+
+test("a target:false config does not take a style-target config's declarations", () => {
+  // `calculateProps` writes a `target: false` config's declarations into `normal.style`, because
+  // `rule.target || "style"` turns the `false` into that string, and `nativeStyleMapping` reads
+  // them back out by the same hardcoded name. The pair is deliberate — the scratch space is how the
+  // declarations travel — but it is not PRIVATE, so a component carrying both kinds of config puts
+  // both sets in one place and each drains the other's.
+  //
+  // Both configs carry a `color`, so a swap is visible whichever way it goes: the style-target
+  // config's orange must stay in `style`, and only the `target: false` config's blue may be
+  // redistributed into `labelColor`.
+  registerCSS(`.c1 { color: orange; } .c2 { color: blue; }`);
+
+  const Styled = styled(Labelled, {
+    className: { target: "style" },
+    labelClassName: {
+      target: false,
+      nativeStyleMapping: { color: "labelColor" },
+    },
+  });
+
+  const component = render(
+    <Styled testID={testID} className="c1" labelClassName="c2" />,
+  ).getByTestId(testID);
+
+  expect(component.props.style).toStrictEqual({ color: "#ffa500" });
+  expect(component.props.labelColor).toBe("#00f");
+});
+
+test("a target:false config emits no style prop", () => {
+  // Three places already say this config owns no style prop: `usePassthrough` skips it,
+  // `deepMergeConfig` returns before writing a target, and web's `useCssElement` resolves a boolean
+  // target to the source key instead. The shared scratch space shipped one regardless, carrying
+  // whatever no mapping entry drained.
+  registerCSS(`.c3 { color: orange; font-size: 20px; }`);
+
+  const Styled = styled(Labelled, {
+    labelClassName: {
+      target: false,
+      nativeStyleMapping: { color: "labelColor" },
+    },
+  });
+
+  const component = render(
+    <Styled testID={testID} labelClassName="c3" />,
+  ).getByTestId(testID);
+
+  expect(component.props.labelColor).toBe("#ffa500");
+  expect(component.props).not.toHaveProperty("style");
+});
+
+test("two target:false configs each keep their own declarations", () => {
+  // With one scratch key shared by every `target: false` config, a second one drains whatever the
+  // first left. Keying the scratch on the config's own source makes that unrepresentable rather
+  // than merely unlikely: a source is a mapping key, so two configs cannot share one.
+  registerCSS(`.c4 { color: orange; } .c5 { color: blue; }`);
+
+  const Styled = styled(Labelled, {
+    labelClassName: {
+      target: false,
+      nativeStyleMapping: { color: "labelColor" },
+    },
+    badgeClassName: {
+      target: false,
+      nativeStyleMapping: { color: "badgeColor" },
+    },
+  });
+
+  const component = render(
+    <Styled testID={testID} labelClassName="c4" badgeClassName="c5" />,
+  ).getByTestId(testID);
+
+  expect(component.props.labelColor).toBe("#ffa500");
+  expect(component.props.badgeColor).toBe("#00f");
+  expect(component.props).not.toHaveProperty("labelClassName");
+  expect(component.props).not.toHaveProperty("badgeClassName");
+});
+
+test("declaration order does not change what either config gets", () => {
+  // The same pair as the first test with the configs declared the other way round. The swap it
+  // guards against is order-independent, so a fix that only worked one way round would pass there
+  // and fail here.
+  //
+  // `.c6` also carries a declaration NO mapping entry drains. It has nowhere to go — the config
+  // asked for no style prop — so it is dropped. Before this, it rode the shared scratch out as
+  // `style: { fontSize: 20 }` on a component that had declared it wanted no `style`.
+  registerCSS(
+    `.c6 { color: orange; font-size: 20px; } .c7 { background-color: blue; }`,
+  );
+
+  const Styled = styled(Labelled, {
+    labelClassName: {
+      target: false,
+      nativeStyleMapping: { color: "labelColor" },
+    },
+    className: { target: "style" },
+  });
+
+  const component = render(
+    <Styled testID={testID} className="c7" labelClassName="c6" />,
+  ).getByTestId(testID);
+
+  expect(component.props.labelColor).toBe("#ffa500");
+  expect(component.props.style).toStrictEqual({ backgroundColor: "#00f" });
+  expect(component.props).not.toHaveProperty("labelClassName");
+});
+
+test("the important path gets its own scratch space too", () => {
+  // `getStyledProps` calls `nativeStyleMapping` twice per config — once for `normal` and once for
+  // `important` — so the one changed read has two call sites and the other three tests only reach
+  // the first. An `!important` declaration travels in the important object, where the same shared
+  // `style` key produced the same drain.
+  registerCSS(`
+    .i1 { color: orange !important; }
+    .i2 { color: blue !important; font-size: 11px !important; }
+  `);
+
+  const Styled = styled(Labelled, {
+    className: { target: "style" },
+    labelClassName: {
+      target: false,
+      nativeStyleMapping: { color: "labelColor" },
+    },
+  });
+
+  const component = render(
+    <Styled testID={testID} className="i1" labelClassName="i2" />,
+  ).getByTestId(testID);
+
+  expect(component.props.style).toStrictEqual({ color: "#ffa500" });
+  expect(component.props.labelColor).toBe("#00f");
+});
+
+test("a declaration no mapping entry names is dropped, not moved into style", () => {
+  // The behaviour change this fix carries, pinned rather than left to a PR sentence. A `target:
+  // false` config owns no style prop, so a declaration its mapping does not name has nowhere to go.
+  // It used to ride the shared scratch out as a real `style` prop — `transform` here, which is a
+  // VISIBLE effect applied to a component that declared it wanted no `style` at all.
+  //
+  // There is a runtime escape hatch — a dotted destination writes wherever it points, so
+  // `{ color: "style.color" }` puts the declaration back. It is not asserted here because it does
+  // not TYPE: `nativeStyleMapping` destinations are constrained to the component's own prop paths,
+  // and no path reaches inside `style`. A typed caller therefore has no way to keep one.
+  registerCSS(`.d1 { transform: translateX(10px); color: orange; }`);
+
+  const Dropping = styled(Labelled, {
+    labelClassName: {
+      target: false,
+      nativeStyleMapping: { color: "labelColor" },
+    },
+  });
+
+  const dropped = render(
+    <Dropping testID={testID} labelClassName="d1" />,
+  ).getByTestId(testID);
+
+  expect(dropped.props.labelColor).toBe("#ffa500");
+  expect(dropped.props).not.toHaveProperty("style");
+});
diff --git a/src/native/react/rules.ts b/src/native/react/rules.ts
index f85a66f9..1835fb24 100644
--- a/src/native/react/rules.ts
+++ b/src/native/react/rules.ts
@@ -263,7 +263,22 @@ export function updateRules(
  */
 const getRuleVariation = weakFamily((rule: StyleRule) => {
   return weakFamily((config: Config): StyleRule => {
-    return { ...rule, target: config.target };
+    // A `target: false` config still needs somewhere to put its declarations before
+    // `nativeStyleMapping` redistributes them into real props. That scratch space is this config's
+    // OWN source key rather than `style`, because `style` is a real target another config can own
+    // and sharing it makes the two drain each other. Sources are `Object.entries(mapping)` keys, so
+    // no two configs can collide on one.
+    //
+    // A config whose TARGET names another config's source is not excluded by the types, only by
+    // reachability: that mapping already throws in `updateRules` when the source prop is passed,
+    // which is the same condition a scratch needs to exist at all.
+    //
+    // The key never ships. `getStyledProps` strips every consumed source, and a `target: false`
+    // config is always consumed because `config.source !== config.target` holds for it.
+    return {
+      ...rule,
+      target: config.target === false ? [config.source] : config.target,
+    };
   });
 });
 
diff --git a/src/native/styles/index.ts b/src/native/styles/index.ts
index c598fc6b..8ad243da 100644
--- a/src/native/styles/index.ts
+++ b/src/native/styles/index.ts
@@ -557,7 +557,8 @@ function nativeStyleMapping(
   if (typeof config.target === "string") {
     source = props[config.target];
   } else if (config.target === false) {
-    source = props["style"];
+    // The scratch space `getRuleVariation` gave this config — its own source key, not `style`.
+    source = props[config.source];
   } else {
     const tokens = [...config.target];
     const lastToken = tokens.pop()!;