| Scientific Name: | Aurinia saxatilis |
| Common Name: | perennial alyssum, basket-of-gold, gold dust alyssum |
| Family Name: | Brassicaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen, Ground cover |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Perennial border, Rock garden |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Oblanceolate, Obovate, Spatulate, Dentate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Panicle, Yellow, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Silicle, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Small, mounding perennial found in full sun in rocky, poor soils; leaves spatulate, most 4-7cm long x 1.5-2.5cm wide; gray-green glaucous, velvety pubescence; flowers butter yellow with four petals and formed in a panicle. | |