Actaea

Accepted species 31 Documented here 13 Family Ranunculaceae

Accepted species 31 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Actaea rubra (Aiton) Willd. 2,181 documented
Actaea pachypoda Elliott 1,852 documented
Actaea spicata L. 578 documented
Actaea racemosa L. 511 documented
Actaea cimicifuga L. 161 documented
Actaea simplex Prantl 61 documented
Actaea podocarpa DC. 38 documented
Actaea asiatica Hara 29 documented
Actaea elata (Nutt.) Prantl 16 documented
Actaea dahurica (Turcz. ex Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Franch. 15 documented
Actaea laciniata (S.Watson) J.Compton 7 documented
Actaea europaea (Schipcz.) J.Compton 5 documented
Actaea rubifolia (Kearney) Kartesz 4 documented
Actaea biternata Prantl 2 below the evidence gate
Actaea vaginata (Maxim.) J.Compton 2 below the evidence gate
Actaea × ludovicii B.Boivin 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea arizonica (S.Watson) J.Compton 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea austrokoreana (H.W.Lee & C.W.Park) Cubey 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea bifida (Nakai) J.Compton 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea brachycarpa (P.K.Hsiao) J.Compton 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea cordifolia DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea frigida (Royle) Prantl 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea heracleifolia (Kom.) J.Compton 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea japonica Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea kashmiriana (J.Compton & Hedd.) J.Compton 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea lancifoliolata (X.F.Pu & M.R.Jia) J.P.Luo, Q.Yuan & Q.E.Yang 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea matsumurae (Nakai) J.Compton & Hedd. 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea nanchuanensis (P.K.Hsiao) J.P.Luo, Q.Yuan & Q.E.Yang 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea purpurea (P.K.Hsiao) J.Compton 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea taiwanensis J.Compton, Hedd. & T.Y.A.Yang 0 below the evidence gate
Actaea yunnanensis (P.K.Hsiao) J.Compton 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.