Clarkia

Accepted species 42 Documented here 32 Family Onagraceae

Accepted species 42 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
Clarkia unguiculata Lindl. 719 documented
Clarkia purpurea (Curtis) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. 713 documented
Clarkia rubicunda (Lindl.) F.H.Lewis & M.E.Lewis 567 documented
Clarkia rhomboidea Douglas 313 documented
Clarkia concinna Greene 260 documented
Clarkia bottae (Spach) F.H.Lewis & M.E.Lewis 150 documented
Clarkia amoena (Lehm.) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. 141 documented
Clarkia epilobioides (Nutt.) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. 127 documented
Clarkia lewisii P.H.Raven & D.R.Parn. 125 documented
Clarkia cylindrica (Jeps.) F.H.Lewis & M.E.Lewis 96 documented
Clarkia delicata (Abrams) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. 62 documented
Clarkia pulchella Pursh 61 documented
Clarkia franciscana F.H.Lewis & P.H.Raven 58 documented
Clarkia dudleyana (Abrams) J.F.Macbr. 52 documented
Clarkia gracilis A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. 50 documented
Clarkia heterandra (Torr.) F.H.Lewis & P.H.Raven 44 documented
Clarkia biloba A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. 43 documented
Clarkia breweri (A.Gray) Greene 41 documented
Clarkia arcuata (Kellogg) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. 37 documented
Clarkia affinis F.H.Lewis & M.E.Lewis 36 documented
Clarkia modesta Jeps. 36 documented
Clarkia similis F.H.Lewis & W.R.Ernst 30 documented
Clarkia tenella (Cav.) F.H.Lewis & M.E.Lewis 28 documented
Clarkia xantiana A.Gray 24 documented
Clarkia speciosa F.H.Lewis & M.E.Lewis 23 documented
Clarkia williamsonii (Durand & Hilg.) F.H.Lewis & M.E.Lewis 20 documented
Clarkia davyi (Jeps.) F.H.Lewis 18 documented
Clarkia prostrata F.H.Lewis & M.E.Lewis 16 documented
Clarkia lassenensis (Eastw.) F.H.Lewis & M.E.Lewis 8 documented
Clarkia imbricata F.H.Lewis & M.E.Lewis 7 documented
Clarkia mildrediae (A.Heller) F.H.Lewis & M.E.Lewis 3 documented
Clarkia springvillensis Vasek 3 documented
Clarkia rostrata W.S.Davis 2 below the evidence gate
Clarkia virgata Greene 2 below the evidence gate
Clarkia australis E.Small 1 below the evidence gate
Clarkia exilis F.H.Lewis & Vasek 1 below the evidence gate
Clarkia borealis E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Clarkia jolonensis D.R.Parn. 0 below the evidence gate
Clarkia lingulata F.H.Lewis & M.E.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Clarkia mosquinii E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Clarkia stellata Mosquin 0 below the evidence gate
Clarkia tembloriensis Vasek 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.