Basket of gold
ഔറിനിയ സാക്സറ്റിലിസ്
Aurinia saxatilis (L.) Desv.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 23 cm
- wide
- 43 cm
Brassicaceae
Also called Basket of Gold, Gold-dust, Golden Alyssum, Goldentuft Alyssum, Goldentuft Madwort
Formerly Adyseton saxatile, Alyssum saxatile, Crucifera saxatilis
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. Europe to N. Balkan Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–12 in; Wikipedia 4–12 in
- Spread
- 41 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–1.5 ft; Wikipedia 16–20 in
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension orange, yellow; Wikipedia cream, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- German
- Felsensteinkraut
- Finnish
- Kivikkokilpiruoho
- French
- Corbeille d'or
- Norwegian Bokmål
- steindodre
- Dutch
- rotsschildzaad
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- steindodre
- Polish
- Smagliczka Arduina, Smagliczka Skalna
- Chinese
- 岩生庭荠
- Slovenian
- skalna zlatenka
- Malayalam
- ഔറിനിയ സാക്സറ്റിലിസ്
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Aurinia saxatilis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.