Downingia

Accepted species 13 Documented here 12 Family Campanulaceae

Accepted species 13 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
Downingia bicornuta A.Gray 80 documented
Downingia pulchella Torr. 74 documented
Downingia cuspidata (Greene) Rattan 60 documented
Downingia insignis Greene 56 documented
Downingia concolor Greene 54 documented
Downingia bacigalupii Weiler 37 documented
Downingia elegans (Douglas ex Lindl.) Torr. 32 documented
Downingia pusilla (G.Don) Torr. 16 documented
Downingia yina Applegate 13 documented
Downingia ornatissima Greene 12 documented
Downingia bella Hoover 11 documented
Downingia laeta (Greene) Greene 3 documented
Downingia montana Greene 1 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.