Ballota

Accepted species 18 Documented here 1 Family Lamiaceae

Accepted species 18 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
Ballota nigra L. 1,569 documented
Ballota saxatilis Sieber ex C.Presl 1 below the evidence gate
Ballota adenophora Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota andreuzziana Pamp. 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota antalyensis Tezcan & H.Duman 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota antilibanotica Post 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota byblensis Semaan & R.M.Haber 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota cristata P.H.Davis 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota glandulosissima Hub.-Mor. & Patzak 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota grisea Pojark. 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota kaiseri Täckh. 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota larendana Boiss. & Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota luteola Velen. 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota macrodonta Boiss. & Balansa 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota philistaea Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota platyloma Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota sechmenii Gemici & Leblebici 0 below the evidence gate
Ballota velerea Maire, Weiller & Wilczek 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.