Carlina

Accepted species 39 Documented here 18 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 39 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
Carlina vulgaris L. 559 documented
Carlina vulgaris Schur 559 documented
Carlina acaulis L. 515 documented
Carlina biebersteinii Bernh. ex Hornem. 450 documented
Carlina salicifolia (L.f.) Cav. 172 documented
Carlina hispanica Lam. 112 documented
Carlina corymbosa L. 80 documented
Carlina acanthifolia All. 44 documented
Carlina racemosa L. 33 documented
Carlina graeca Heldr. & Sart. ex Boiss. 15 documented
Carlina graeca Heldr. & Sartori ex Boiss. 15 documented
Carlina lanata L. 15 documented
Carlina lanata Pall. ex DC. 15 documented
Carlina macrophylla DC. 10 documented
Carlina curetum Heldr. 5 documented
Carlina involucrata Poir. 5 documented
Carlina xeranthemoides L.f. 5 documented
Carlina tragacanthifolia Klatt 3 documented
Carlina comosa (Spreng.) Greuter 1 below the evidence gate
Carlina libanotica Boiss. 1 below the evidence gate
Carlina macrocephala Moris 1 below the evidence gate
Carlina pygmaea Holmboe 1 below the evidence gate
Carlina × bakariensis E.Mayer 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina × szaferi Jasiewicz & Pawł. 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina atlantica Pomel 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina balfouris Sennen 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina barnebiana B.L.Burtt & P.H.Davis 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina brachylepis (Batt.) Meusel & A.Kastner 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina canariensis Pit. 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina diae (Rech.f.) Meusel & Kästner 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina frigida Boiss. & Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina guittonneaui Dobignard 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina gummifera (L.) Less. 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina kurdica Meusel & Kästner 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina oligocephala Boiss. & Kotschy 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina sicula Ten. 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina sitiensis Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina vayredae Gaut. 0 below the evidence gate
Carlina vayredrae Gaut. 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.