Chrysogonum virginianumL.

northern green-and-gold

WFO wfo-0000130508 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Chrysogonum virginianum, photographed by TERRI MEWBORN
fig. a TERRI MEWBORN, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201966700
Chrysogonum virginianum, photographed by TERRI MEWBORN
fig. b TERRI MEWBORN, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201984383
Chrysogonum virginianum, photographed by Kathy Richardson
fig. c Kathy Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197917098
Chrysogonum virginianum, photographed by Kathy Richardson
fig. d Kathy Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190751866
Chrysogonum virginianum, photographed by Dennis White
fig. e Dennis White, CC0 1.0 / obs. 181966030
Chrysogonum virginianum, photographed by ch3chia
fig. f ch3chia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187337591
Chrysogonum virginianum, photographed by Timothy Gerla
fig. g Timothy Gerla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187351013
Chrysogonum virginianum, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. h Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181194934

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Flowering n = 602 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 602 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Chrysogonum australe Alexander ex Small
  • Chrysogonum diotostephus DC.
  • Chrysogonum virginianum var. dentatum A.Gray
  • Diotostephus repens Cass.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.