Baptisia

Accepted species 27 Documented here 16 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 27 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
Baptisia lactea (Raf.) Thieret 536 documented
Baptisia leucophaea Nutt. 494 documented
Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br. 446 documented
Baptisia alba (L.) R.Br. 330 documented
Baptisia australis (L.) R.Br. 286 documented
Baptisia nuttalliana Small 86 documented
Baptisia sphaerocarpa Nutt. 60 documented
Baptisia aberrans (Larisey) Weakley 55 documented
Baptisia cinerea (Raf.) Fernald & B.G.Schub. 51 documented
Baptisia lanceolata (Walter) Elliott 45 documented
Baptisia lecontei Torr. & A.Gray 43 documented
Baptisia perfoliata (L.) R.Br. 36 documented
Baptisia simplicifolia Croom 26 documented
Baptisia megacarpa Chapm. ex Torr. & A.Gray 14 documented
Baptisia bracteata Muhl. ex Elliott 6 documented
Baptisia calycosa Engelm. 4 documented
Baptisia × bicolor Greenm. & Larisey 0 below the evidence gate
Baptisia × bushii Small 0 below the evidence gate
Baptisia × microphylla Nutt. 0 below the evidence gate
Baptisia × serenae M.A.Curtis 0 below the evidence gate
Baptisia × sulphurea Engelm. 0 below the evidence gate
Baptisia × variicolor Kosnik, Diggs, Redshaw & Lipscomb 0 below the evidence gate
Baptisia arachnifera W.H.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Baptisia auriculata Sweet 0 below the evidence gate
Baptisia deamii Larisey 0 below the evidence gate
Baptisia hirsuta Small 0 below the evidence gate
Baptisia retusa Raf. 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.