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Aurinia saxatilis (Basket of Gold)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Aurinia saxatilis (syns Alyssum saxatile, Alyssum saxatile var. compactum) is an ornamental plant native to Asia and Europe.
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Infraspecies

Aurinia saxatilis megalocarpa
Aurinia saxatilis orientalis
Aurinia saxatilis saxatilis (Attributes)

Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  A good ground cover plant for a sunny position;
Height [1]  10 inches (0.25 m)
Width [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Palava Protected Landscape Area V   Czech Republic  

Predators

Euchloe ausonia (Eastern Dappled White)[3]
Pieris rapae (imported cabbageworm)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0