Cryptantha

Accepted species 113 Documented here 30 Family Boraginaceae

Accepted species 113 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
Cryptantha pterocarya (Torr.) Greene 172 documented
Cryptantha maritima (Greene) Greene 164 documented
Cryptantha intermedia (A.Gray) Greene 116 documented
Cryptantha flaccida (Douglas ex Lehm.) Greene 105 documented
Cryptantha barbigera (A.Gray) Greene 75 documented
Cryptantha nevadensis A.Nelson & P.B.Kenn. 70 documented
Cryptantha minima Rydb. 57 documented
Cryptantha crassisepala (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene 38 documented
Cryptantha fendleri (A.Gray) Greene 37 documented
Cryptantha gracilis Osterh. 29 documented
Cryptantha utahensis (A.Gray) Greene 28 documented
Cryptantha texana Greene 25 documented
Cryptantha scoparia A.Nelson 24 documented
Cryptantha leiocarpa (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Greene 22 documented
Cryptantha dumetorum (Greene ex A.Gray) Greene 20 documented
Cryptantha recurvata Coville 20 documented
Cryptantha ambigua (A.Gray) Greene 9 documented
Cryptantha micromeres (A.Gray) Greene 9 documented
Cryptantha microstachys Greene 9 documented
Cryptantha crinita Greene 7 documented
Cryptantha ganderi I.M.Johnst. 7 documented
Cryptantha kelseyana Greene 7 documented
Cryptantha kinkiensis Rebman & M.G.Simpson 6 documented
Cryptantha glomeriflora Greene 5 documented
Cryptantha macrocalyx (Phil.) Reiche 5 documented
Cryptantha muricata (Hook. & Arn.) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. 5 documented
Cryptantha filaginea (Phil.) Reiche 4 documented
Cryptantha alyssoides (A. DC.) Reiche 3 documented
Cryptantha decipiens (M.E.Jones) A.Heller 3 documented
Cryptantha torreyana (A.Gray) Greene 3 documented
Cryptantha simulans Greene 5 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha capituliflora (Clos) Reiche 2 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha hispidissima Greene 1 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha acrimuricata J.M.André, L.M.Simpson & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha affinis (A.GRay) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha alfalfalis (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha aprica (Phil.) Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha arenophila Rebman & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha argentea I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha aspera (Phil.) Grau 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha calycina (Phil.) Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha calycotricha I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha catalinensis M.G.Simpson & Rebman 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha chaetocalyx (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha chispae Grau 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha clandestina (Trevir.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha clementina Rebman & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha clevelandii Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha clokeyi I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha corollata (I.M.Johnst.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha cycloptera (Greene) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha cynoglossoides (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha debilis (Phil.) Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha dichita (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha diffusa (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha dimorpha (Phil.) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha dissita I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha dolichophylla (Phil.) Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha echinella Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha echinosepala J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha excavata Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha filiformis (Phil.) Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha foliosa (Greene) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha gayi I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha globulifera (Clos) Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha glomerata Lehm. ex G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha glomerulifera (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha gnaphalioides (A.DC.) Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha grandiflora Rydb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha granulosa (Ruiz & Pav.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha haplostachya (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha hendersonii (A.Nelson) J.C.Nelson 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha hispida (Phil.) Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha hispidula Greene ex Brand 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha hooveri I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha incana Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha involucrata (Phil.) Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha juniperensis R.B.Kelley & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha latefissa R.L.Pérez-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha limensis (A.DC.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha linearis (Colla) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha longifolia (Phil.)Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha marioricardiana Teillier 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha mariposae I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha marticorenae Grau 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha martirensis M.G.Simpson & Rebman 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha mendocina I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha milobakeri I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha mohavensis (Greene) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha nemaclada Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha oxygona (A.Gray) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha papillosa R.L.Pérez-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha patagonica (Speg.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha patula Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha peruviana I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha phaceloides (Clos) Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha pondii Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha rattanii Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha romanii I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha rostellata (Greene) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha sparsiflora (Greene) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha spathulata (Phil.) Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha spithamaea I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha stylosa (Phil.) Scherson, Nic.García & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha subamplexicaulis (Phil.) Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha taltalensis I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha traskiae I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha varians Brand 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha volckmannii (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha watsonii (A.Gray) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha werdermanniana I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha whippleae D.A.York & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptantha wigginsii I.M.Johnst. 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.