Brodiaea

Accepted species 19 Documented here 15 Family Asparagaceae

Accepted species 19 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
Brodiaea elegans Hoover 518 documented
Brodiaea terrestris Kellogg 217 documented
Brodiaea coronaria (Salisb.) Jeps. 118 documented
Brodiaea orcuttii (Greene) Baker 46 documented
Brodiaea kinkiensis T.F.Niehaus 36 documented
Brodiaea nana Hoover 30 documented
Brodiaea leptandra Baker 25 documented
Brodiaea stellaris S.Watson 16 documented
Brodiaea appendiculata Hoover 12 documented
Brodiaea jolonensis Eastw. 11 documented
Brodiaea filifolia S.Watson 9 documented
Brodiaea minor S.Watson 8 documented
Brodiaea californica Lindl. ex Lem. 4 documented
Brodiaea insignis (Jeps.) T.F.Niehaus 4 documented
Brodiaea pallida Hoover 3 documented
Brodiaea matsonii R.E.Preston 0 below the evidence gate
Brodiaea rosea (Greene) Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Brodiaea santarosae T.J.Chester, W.P.Armstr. & Madore 0 below the evidence gate
Brodiaea sierrae R.E.Preston 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.