Brassicaceae
Basket of gold
Aurinia saxatilis
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Aurinia
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Common names
By language (15)
- Catalan
- Aethionema saxatile, Pedrosa
- Chinese
- 岩生庭荠, 金满筐
- Czech
- Tařice skalní Arduinova
- Dutch
- Rotsschildzaad
- English
- Basket of gold, Gold-dust, Golden alyssum, Goldentuft alyssum, Goldentuft madwort, Rock madwort
- Finnish
- Kivikkokilpiruoho
- French
- Corbeille d'or
- German
- Felsensteinkraut
- Hungarian
- Syn. Alyssum saxatile
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Steindodre
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Steindodre
- Polish
- Smagliczka Arduina, Smagliczka Skalna
- Portuguese
- Aethionema saxatile, Cesto de ouro, Cesto-de-ouro
- Slovenian
- Skalna zlatenka
- Spanish
- Aethionema saxatile, Basket of Gold, Cesto de oro, Gold dust, Gold-dust, Golden Alyssum, Golden tuft alyssum, Golden tuft madwort
Synonyms
- Adyseton saxatile (L.) Sweet
- Adyseton sibiricum G.Don
- Alyssum bilimekii Willk.
- Alyssum cheirifolium J.P.Bergeret ex Steud.
- Alyssum ephesium Bornm.
- Aurinia saxatilis subsp. arduinii (Fritsch) Dostál
- Crucifera saxatilis (L.) E.H.L.Krause
Flowers
- In flower
- April to May (from 194 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: darmozrac, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Philipp Pavelka, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Olena V. Vakarenko, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Петроченко Віктор Іванович, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Петроченко Віктор Іванович, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Петроченко Віктор Іванович, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Петроченко Віктор Іванович, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: J Mark Earlam, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Петроченко Віктор Іванович, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.