Arctium

Accepted species 30 Documented here 4 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 30 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
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh. 1,899 documented
Arctium tomentosum Mill. 1,692 documented
Arctium lappa L. 1,299 documented
Arctium nemorosum Lej. 27 documented
Arctium nidulans (Regel) Sennikov 1 below the evidence gate
Arctium × ambiguum (Čelak.) Nyman 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium × leiobardanum Juz. & C.Serg. ex Stepanov 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium × mixtum (Simonk.) Nyman 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium abolinii (Kult. ex Tscherneva) S.López, Romasch., Susanna & N.Garcia 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium alberti (Regel & Schmalh.) S.López, Romasch., Susanna & N.Garcia 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium atlanticum (Pomel) H.Lindb. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium batavum Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium bretonii Rouy 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium debrayi Senay 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium echinopifolium (Bornm.) S.López, Romasch., Susanna & N.Garcia 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium evidens (Tscherneva) S.López, Romasch., Susanna & N.Garcia 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium maassii Rouy 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium neumani Rouy 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium nothum (Ruhmer) J.Weiss 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium palladinii (Marcow.) Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium palladinii (Marcow.) R.E.Fr. & E.S.Söderb. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium palladinii (Marcow.) R.E.Fr. & Soderb. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium pallidivirens (Kult.) S.López, Romasch., Susanna & N.Garcia 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium pentacanthoides (Juz. ex Tscherneva) S.López, Romasch., Susanna & N.Garcia 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium platylepis (Boiss. & Bal.) Sosn. ex Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium pseudarctium (Bornm.) Duist. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium refractum (Bornm.) S.López, Romasch., Susanna & N.Garcia 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium sardaimionense Rassulova & B.A.Sharipova 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium scanicum Rouy 0 below the evidence gate
Arctium schmalhausenii Kuntze 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.