Anchusa

Accepted species 42 Documented here 13 Family Boraginaceae

Accepted species 42 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
Anchusa officinalis L. 1,143 documented
Anchusa arvensis (L.) M.Bieb. 798 documented
Anchusa azurea Mill. 271 documented
Anchusa capensis Thunb. 100 documented
Anchusa hybrida Ten. 86 documented
Anchusa undulata L. 51 documented
Anchusa cretica Mill. 45 documented
Anchusa aegyptiaca DC. 20 documented
Anchusa strigosa [Soland.] 18 documented
Anchusa crispa Viv. 8 documented
Anchusa cespitosa Lam. 4 documented
Anchusa gmelinii Ledeb. ex Spreng. 3 documented
Anchusa variegata Lehm. 3 documented
Anchusa calcarea Boiss. 2 below the evidence gate
Anchusa iranica Rech.f. & Esfand. 2 below the evidence gate
Anchusa ochroleuca M.Bieb. 1 below the evidence gate
Anchusa stylosa M.Bieb. 1 below the evidence gate
Anchusa × digenea Gușul. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa × thirkeana Gușul. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa affinis R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa aggregata Lehm. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa atlantica Ball 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa aucheri A.DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa dinsmorei Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa formosa Selvi, Bigazzi & Bacch. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa konyaensis Yıld. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa leptophylla Roem. & Schult. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa leucantha Selvi & Bigazzi 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa limbata Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa milleri Lam. ex Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa montelinasana Angius, Pontec. & Selvi 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa negevensis Danin 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa procera Besser ex Link 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa procera Bessey 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa pseudoochroleuca Des.-Shost. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa puechi Valdés 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa puechii Valdés 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa pusilla Gușul. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa riparia DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa samothracica Bigazzi & Selvi 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa thessala Boiss. & Spruner 0 below the evidence gate
Anchusa tiberiadis Post 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.