Encelia

Accepted species 22 Documented here 15 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 22 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
Encelia farinosa A.Gray ex Torr. 2,904 documented
Encelia californica Nutt. 1,307 documented
Encelia actoni Elmer 249 documented
Encelia frutescens A.Gray 145 documented
Encelia virginensis A.Nelson 79 documented
Encelia canescens Lamarck 56 documented
Encelia ravenii Wiggins 28 documented
Encelia densifolia C.Clark & Kyhos 25 documented
Encelia ventorum Brandegee 17 documented
Encelia asperifolia (S.F.Blake) C.Clark & Kyhos 15 documented
Encelia resinifera C.Clark 15 documented
Encelia stenophylla Greene 11 documented
Encelia nutans Eastw. 8 documented
Encelia palmeri Vasey & Rose 7 documented
Encelia laciniata Vasey & Rose 4 documented
Encelia actonii Elmer 0 below the evidence gate
Encelia conspersa Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Encelia halimifolia Cav. 0 below the evidence gate
Encelia hispida Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Encelia pilocarpa Rubsy 0 below the evidence gate
Encelia pilosiflora S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Encelia scaposa A.Gray 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.