Selenia aureaNutt.

golden selenia

WFO wfo-0001216508 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Selenia aurea, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. a Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-03 / obs. 186101001
Selenia aurea, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. b Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185950492
Selenia aurea, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. c Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185956268
Selenia aurea, photographed by Kelly Bostian
fig. d Kelly Bostian, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116859472
Selenia aurea, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. e Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132517243
Selenia aurea, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. f Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186099003
Selenia aurea, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. g Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186464501
Selenia aurea, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. h Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186464490

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Selenia aurea is native: Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma ArkansasKansasMissouriOklahoma
Native distribution of Selenia aurea, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Arkansas ARK NORTHERN AMERICA
Kansas KAN
Missouri MSO
Oklahoma OKL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 2 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.

  • Selenia aperta Small
  • Selenia aurea var. aperta S.Watson

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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