Thermopsis mollis(Michx.) M.A.Curtis ex A.Gray

Allegheny Mountain goldenbanner

WFO wfo-0001055161 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Thermopsis mollis, photographed by Jessica
fig. a Jessica, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-10 / obs. 128017078
Thermopsis mollis, photographed by Jessica
fig. b Jessica, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128017033
Thermopsis mollis, photographed by Jessica
fig. c Jessica, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128017119
Thermopsis mollis, photographed by Jessica
fig. d Jessica, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128017170

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Thermopsis mollis is native: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia AlabamaGeorgiaKentuckyNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaTennesseeVirginia
Native distribution of Thermopsis mollis, 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
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Georgia GEO
Kentucky KTY
North Carolina NCA
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Virginia VRG

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 8 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.

  • Baptisia hugeri Small
  • Baptisia mollis (Michx.) Nutt.
  • Lasinia bicolor Raf.
  • Lasinia grandifolia Raf.
  • Lasinia mollis (Michx.) Raf.
  • Lasinia pallens Raf.
  • Podalyria mollis Michx.
  • Thermopsis hugeri (Small) Small

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol THMO2. public domain. 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.

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