Botrychium

Accepted species 41 Documented here 24 Family Ophioglossaceae

Accepted species 41 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
Botrychium lunaria (L.) Sw. 273 documented
Botrychium matricariifolium (Retz.) A.Braun ex W.D.J.Koch 137 documented
Botrychium simplex E.Hitchc. 55 documented
Botrychium ascendens W.H.Wagner 47 documented
Botrychium lanceolatum (Gmel.) Ångstr. 38 documented
Botrychium pinnatum H.St.John 36 documented
Botrychium crenulatum W.H.Wagner 32 documented
Botrychium minganense Vict. 28 documented
Botrychium angustisegmentum (Pease & A.H.Moore) Fernald 26 documented
Botrychium neolunaria Stensvold & Farrar 26 documented
Botrychium boreale Milde 12 documented
Botrychium spathulatum W.H.Wagner 12 documented
Botrychium montanum W.H.Wagner 11 documented
Botrychium pedunculosum W.H.Wagner 10 documented
Botrychium alaskense W.H.Wagner & J.R.Grant 9 documented
Botrychium lineare W.H.Wagner 9 documented
Botrychium paradoxum W.H.Wagner 9 documented
Botrychium pumicola Coville ex Underw. 9 documented
Botrychium campestre W.H.Wagner & Farrar 8 documented
Botrychium tenebrosum A.A.Eaton 8 documented
Botrychium pallidum W.H.Wagner 7 documented
Botrychium dusenii (Christ) Alston 3 documented
Botrychium rubellum Farrar & Stensvold 3 documented
Botrychium tunux Stensvold & Farrar 3 documented
Botrychium michiganense W.H.Wagner ex A.V.Gilman, Farrar & Zika 3 below the evidence gate
Botrychium mormo W.H.Wagner 2 below the evidence gate
Botrychium × hesperium (Maxon & R.T.Clausen) W.H.Wagner & Lellinger 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium × watertonense W.H.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium acuminatum W.H.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium echo W.H.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium farrarii B.S.Legler & S.J.Popovich 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium furculatum S.J.Popovich & Farrar 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium gallicomontanum Farrar & Johnson-Groh 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium nordicum Stensvold & Farrar 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium oneidense (Gilbert) House 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium onondagense Underw. 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium pseudopinnatum W.H.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium robustum (Rupr.) Underw. 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium socorrense W.H.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium tolucaense W.H.Wagner & Mickel 0 below the evidence gate
Botrychium yaaxudakeit Stensvold & Farrar 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.