Frangula

Accepted species 56 Documented here 13 Family Rhamnaceae

Accepted species 56 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
Frangula alnus Mill. 3,093 documented
Frangula californica (Eschsch.) A.Gray 1,286 documented
Frangula caroliniana (Walter) A.Gray 805 documented
Frangula purshiana (DC.) A.Gray ex J.G.Cooper 592 documented
Frangula obovata (Kearney & Peebles) G.L.Nesom & Sawyer 32 documented
Frangula mucronata (Schltdl.) Grubov 25 documented
Frangula rupestris (Scop.) Schur 24 documented
Frangula capreifolia (Schltdl.) Grubov 10 documented
Frangula goudotiana (Triana) Grubov 10 documented
Frangula sphaerosperma (Sw.) Kartesz & Gandhi 8 documented
Frangula betulifolia (Greene) Grubov 7 documented
Frangula crenata Miq. 5 documented
Frangula mcvaughii (L.A.Johnst. & M.C.Johnst.) A.Pool 5 documented
Frangula discolor (Donn.Sm.) Grubov 2 below the evidence gate
Frangula rubra (Greene) Grubov 1 below the evidence gate
Frangula × blumeri (Greene) Kartesz & Gandhi 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula acuminata (Maguire & Steyerm.) A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula austrosinensis Hatus. 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula azorica Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula breedlovei (L.A.Johnst. & M.C.Johnst.) A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula chimalapensis (R.Fernández) A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula chrysophylla Reissek 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula circumscissa A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula darienensis A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula dianthes (L.Riley) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula glaberrima (Peyr.) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula grandiflora A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula grandifolia (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula granulosa (Ruiz & Pav.) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula grisea (Merr.) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula henryi (C.K.Schneid.) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula hintonii (M.C.Johnst. & L.A.Johnst.) A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula inconspicua A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula lindeniana (Triana) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula longipedicellata A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula longipes (Merr. & Chun) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula longistyla (C.B.Wolf) A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula macrocarpa (Standl.) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula marahuacensis (Steyerm. & Maguire) A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula microphylla (Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula neblinensis (Maguire & Steyerm.) A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula oreodendron (L.O.Williams) A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula palmeri (S.Watson) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula pedunculata F.K.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula pendula A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula pinetorum (Standl.) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula polymorpha Reissek 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula pringlei (Rose) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula pubescens (Ruiz & Pav.) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula revoluta Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula rhododendriphylla (Y.L.Chen & P.K.Chou) H.Yu, H.G.Ye & N.H.Xia 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula riojae (Perkins) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula scopulorum (M.E.Jones) A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula surotatensis (Gentry) A.Pool 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula ulei (Pilg.) Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Frangula wendtii (Ishiki) A.Pool 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.