alpine gold vs wild flower

alpine gold and wild flower both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
alpine gold	Yes	No	No	No
wild flower	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, wild flower is a hypernym of alpine gold; that is, wild flower is a word with a broader meaning than alpine gold:

alpine gold: low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays; northwestern United States
wild flower: wild or uncultivated flowering plant

Other hypernyms of alpine gold include wildflower.

alpine gold (noun)	wild flower (noun)
low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays; northwestern United States	wild or uncultivated flowering plant