Alkanna

Accepted species 69 Documented here 4 Family Boraginaceae

Accepted species 69 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
Alkanna tinctoria Tausch 96 documented
Alkanna orientalis (L.) Boiss. 14 documented
Alkanna strigosa Boiss. & Hohen. 9 documented
Alkanna hellenica (Boiss.) Rech.f. 4 documented
Alkanna sieberi A.DC. 1 below the evidence gate
Alkanna stribrnyi Velen. 1 below the evidence gate
Alkanna × intercedens Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna amana Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna angustifolia Sümbül 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna areolata Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna assadii Khajoei & Zeraatkar 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna attilae P.H.Davis 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna aucheriana A.DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna auranitica Mouterde 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna bracteosa Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna calliensis Heldr. ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna cappadocica Boiss. & Balansa 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna chrysanthiana Kit Tan 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna confusa Sam. ex Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna corcyrensis Hayek 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna cordifolia K.Koch 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna dumanii Sümbül 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna frigida Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna froedinii Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna galilaea Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna graeca Boiss. & Spruner 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna haussknechtii Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna hirsutissima (Bertol.) A.DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna hispida Hub.-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna incana Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna jordanovii Kožuharov 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna kotschyana DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna leiocarpa Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna leptophylla Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna lutea A.DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna macrophylla Boiss. & Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna macrosiphon Boiss. & Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna malatyana Şenol & Yıldırım 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna maleolens Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna megacarpa A.DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna methanaea Hausskn. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna milliana Sümbül 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna mughlae H.Duman, Güner & Şağban 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna noneiformis Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna oreodoxa Hub.-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna pamphylica Hub.-Mor. & Reese 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna pelia (Halácsy) Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna phrygia Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna pinardi Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna pindicola Hausskn. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna prasinophylla Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna primuliflora Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna pseudotinctoria Hub.-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna pulmonaria Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna punctulata Hub.-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna sandwithii Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna sartoriana Boiss. & Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna saxicola Hub.-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna scardica Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna semiromica Ranjbar & Khalvati 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna sfikasiana Kit Tan, Vold & Strid 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna shattuckia Post 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna sieheana Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna stojanovii Kožuharov 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna sumbulii Yıld. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna trichophila Hub.-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna tubulosa Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna verecunda Hub.-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Alkanna viscidula Boiss. 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.