Argemone

Accepted species 33 Documented here 17 Family Papaveraceae

Accepted species 33 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
Argemone mexicana L. 675 documented
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet 461 documented
Argemone munita Durand & Hilg. 402 documented
Argemone albiflora Hornem. 325 documented
Argemone polyanthemos (Fedde) Ownbey 278 documented
Argemone pleiacantha Greene 276 documented
Argemone aenea Ownbey 98 documented
Argemone subfusiformis Ownbey 81 documented
Argemone aurantiaca Ownbey 71 documented
Argemone glauca (Nutt. ex Prain) Pope 68 documented
Argemone sanguinea Greene 67 documented
Argemone platyceras Link & Otto 21 documented
Argemone squarrosa Greene 16 documented
Argemone corymbosa Greene 14 documented
Argemone grandiflora Sweet 14 documented
Argemone hispida A.Gray 8 documented
Argemone gracilenta Greene 5 documented
Argemone arida Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone arizonica Ownbey 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone brevicornuta Ownbey 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone burkartii SorarĂº 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone chisosensis Ownbey 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone crassifolia Ownbey 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone echinata Ownbey 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone fruticosa Thurb. ex A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone hunnemanni A.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone parva (S.L.Welsh) N.H.Holmgren & P.K.Holmgren 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone pinnatisecta (G.B.Ownbey) S.D.Cerv. & C.D.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone rosea Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone subalpina A.McDonald 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone subintegrifolia Ownbey 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone superba Ownbey 0 below the evidence gate
Argemone turnerae A.M.Powell 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.