The reproductive traits of angiosperms are widely believed to have evolved largely through pollinator-mediated natural selection. The present study focused on Stellera chamaejasme, a dominant poisonous species in degraded alpine meadow in Tianzhu County of Gansu Province in China. S. chamaejasme was chosen as a model species to explore adaptation of floral traits and possible selective mechanisms by detecting their selection differentials and selection gradients. It was found that flower number per inflorescence and corolla tube length had both significant selection differentials and selection gradients (P<0.05), indicating positive directional selection for both traits. Also, significant nonlinear selection gradients (P<0.05) were detected for these two traits, possibly indicating stable selection occurring for them. Negative directional selection was detected for inflorescence length, with a significant linear selection gradient of -0.102±0.039 (P=0.008). No significant selection was detected for the other traits measured, such as corolla entrance size and inflorescence number per plant. In conclusion, the data indicate that some reproductive traits in S. chamaejasme exhibited a trend of adaptive evolution under natural selection, and individuals, which have relatively shorter inflorescence length, longer corolla tubes and more flowers per inflorescence, tend to be selected for due to their advantage in achieving reproductive fitness.