Thymophylla aurea(A.Gray) Greene ex Britton & A.Br.

manyawn pricklyleaf

WFO wfo-0000105308 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, 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.

Thymophylla aurea, photographed by Forest Botial-Jarvis
fig. a Forest Botial-Jarvis, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-10 / obs. 150137295
Thymophylla aurea, photographed by Cecelia Alexander
fig. b Cecelia Alexander, CC0 1.0 / obs. 146867254
Thymophylla aurea, photographed by Cecelia Alexander
fig. c Cecelia Alexander, CC0 1.0 / obs. 146867504

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Thymophylla aurea is native: Alabama, Colorado, Kansas, Mexico Northeast, New Mexico, Texas AlabamaColoradoKansasMexico NortheastNew MexicoTexas
Native distribution of Thymophylla 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
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Colorado COL
Kansas KAN
Mexico Northeast MXE
New Mexico NWM
Texas TEX

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 9 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.

  • Dyssodia aurea (A.Gray) A.Nelson
  • Dyssodia aurea var. aurea
  • Dyssodia aurea var. polychaeta (A.Gray) M.C.Johnst.
  • Dyssodia polychaeta B.L.Rob.
  • Hymenatherum aureum A.Gray
  • Hymenatherum polychaetum A.Gray
  • Lowellia aurea A.Gray
  • Thymophylla polychaeta Small
  • Thymophylla polychaeta A.Gray

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.

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.