Dahlia

Accepted species 40 Documented here 12 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 40 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
Dahlia coccinea Cav. 297 documented
Dahlia imperialis Roezl ex Ortgies 191 documented
Dahlia merckii Lehm. 26 documented
Dahlia pinnata Cav. 20 documented
Dahlia sorensenii H.V.Hansen & Hjert. 16 documented
Dahlia sherffii P.D.Sørensen 13 documented
Dahlia campanulata Saar, Sorenson & Hjert. 12 documented
Dahlia tenuicaulis P.D.Sørensen 10 documented
Dahlia australis (Sherff) P.D.Sørensen 9 documented
Dahlia atropurpurea P.D.Sørensen 4 documented
Dahlia tubulata P.D.Sørensen 4 documented
Dahlia pugana Aarón Rodr. & Art.Castro 3 documented
Dahlia hintonii Sherff 2 below the evidence gate
Dahlia pteropoda Sherff 1 below the evidence gate
Dahlia apiculata (Sherff) P.D.Sørensen 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia brevis P.D.Sørensen 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia calzadana Villaseñor & Redonda-Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia cardiophylla S.F.Blake & Sherff 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia congestifolia P.D.Sørensen 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia cordifolia (Sessé & Moc.) McVaugh 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia crocea (Willd.) Poir. 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia cuspidata Saar, Sorenson & Hjert. 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia dissecta S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia excelsa Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia foeniculifolia Sherff 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia hjertingii H.V.Hansen & P.D.Sørensen 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia linearis Sherff 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia macdougallii Sherff 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia mixtecana J.Reyes, Islas & Art.Castro 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia mollis P.D.Sørensen 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia moorei Sherff 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia neglecta Saar 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia parvibracteata Saar & P.D.Sørensen 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia purpusii Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia rudis P.D.Sørensen 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia rupicola P.D.Sørensen 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia scapigera Knowles & Westc. 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia scapigeroides Sherff 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia spectabilis Saar & P.D.Sørensen 0 below the evidence gate
Dahlia tenuis B.L.Rob. & Greenm. 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.