Elephantopus

Accepted species 29 Documented here 7 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 29 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
Elephantopus carolinianus Raeusch. 608 documented
Elephantopus carolinianus Raeuschel 608 documented
Elephantopus tomentosus L. 399 documented
Elephantopus mollis Kunth 289 documented
Elephantopus elatus Bertol. 145 documented
Elephantopus scaber L. 77 documented
Elephantopus nudatus A.Gray 46 documented
Elephantopus angolensis O.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus arenarius Britton & Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus arenosus Krasch. 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus biflorus Sch.Bip. 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus dilatatus Gleason 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus elongatus Gardner 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus erectus Gleason 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus hirtiflorus DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus mendoncae Philipson 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus micropappus Less. 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus multisetus O.Hoffm. ex T.Durand & De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus nudicaulis Poir. 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus palustris Gardner 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus piauiensis R.Barros & Semir 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus pratensis C.Wright 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus pratensis C.Wright 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus racemosus Gardner 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus riparius Gardner 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus senegalensis Oliver & Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus vernonioides S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus virgatus Ham. 0 below the evidence gate
Elephantopus welwitschii Hiern 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.