Astilbe

Accepted species 30 Documented here 5 Family Saxifragaceae

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
Astilbe longicarpa (Hayata) Hayata 59 documented
Astilbe chinensis (Maxim.) Franch. & Sav. 26 documented
Astilbe biternata (Vent.) Britton 24 documented
Astilbe macroflora Hayata 14 documented
Astilbe microphylla Knoll 5 documented
Astilbe formosa (Nakai) Nakai 2 below the evidence gate
Astilbe × amabilis H.Hara 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe × photeinophylla Koidz. 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe apoensis Hallier f. 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe crenatiloba (Britton) Small 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe glaberrima Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe grandis Stapf ex E.H.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe hachijoensis Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe japonica (C.Morren & Decne.) A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe koreana (Kom.) Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe longipedicellata (Hatus.) S.Akiyama & Kadota 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe longipilosa Gilli 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe macrocarpa Knoll 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe okuyamae H.Hara 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe papuana Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe philippinensis Henry 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe platyphylla Boissieu 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe rivularis Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe rubra Hook.f. & Thomson 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe shikokiana Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe simplicifolia Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe taquetii (H.Lév.) Koidz. 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe thunbergii (Siebold & Zucc.) Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe tsushimensis Kadota 0 below the evidence gate
Astilbe uljinensis B.U.Oh & H.J.Choi 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.