Carthamus

Accepted species 26 Documented here 7 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 26 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
Carthamus lanatus L. 317 documented
Carthamus carduncellus L. 57 documented
Carthamus tinctorius L. 56 documented
Carthamus glaucus M.Bieb. 25 documented
Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & C.I.Blanche) Bornm. 14 documented
Carthamus creticus L. 5 documented
Carthamus fruticosus Maire 5 documented
Carthamus × faurei Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus boissieri Halácsy 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus calvus Batt. 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus carthamoides (Pomel) Batt. 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus curdicus Hanelt 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus dentatus Vahl 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus flavescens Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus gypsicola Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus hispanicus Sch.Bip. 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus leucocaulos Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus mareoticus Delile 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus nitidus Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus oxyacantha M.Bieb. 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus persicus Desf. ex Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus rechingeri P.H.Davis 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus rhaponticoides (Pomel) Greuter 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus strictus (Pomel) Batt. 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus tamamschjanae Gabrieljan 0 below the evidence gate
Carthamus turkestanicus Popov 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.