Helenium

Accepted species 39 Documented here 18 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 39 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
Helenium amarum (Raf.) H.Rock 1,533 documented
Helenium autumnale L. 855 documented
Helenium flexuosum Raf. 351 documented
Helenium puberulum DC. 342 documented
Helenium elegans DC. 207 documented
Helenium bigelovii A.Gray 144 documented
Helenium pinnatifidum (Schwein. ex Nutt.) Rydb. 112 documented
Helenium microcephalum DC. 77 documented
Helenium vernale Walter 59 documented
Helenium brevifolium (Nutt.) Alph.Wood 53 documented
Helenium mexicanum Kunth 22 documented
Helenium aromaticum (Hook.) L.H.Bailey 20 documented
Helenium drummondii H.Rock 15 documented
Helenium bolanderi A.Gray 11 documented
Helenium thurberi A.Gray 11 documented
Helenium atacamense Cabrera 7 documented
Helenium campestre Small 5 documented
Helenium arizonicum S.F.Blake 3 documented
Helenium quadridentatum Labill. 1 below the evidence gate
Helenium apterum (S.F.Blake) Bierner 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium argentinum Ariza 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium chihuahuense Bierner 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium donianum (Hook. & Arn.) Seckt 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium fimbriatum (Michx.) A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium glaucum Stuntz 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium insulare (Phil.) Cabrera 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium integrifolium Sessé & Moc. 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium laciniatum A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium linifolium Rydb. 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium longiaristatum Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium ovallense Bierner 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium polyphyllum Small 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium radiatum (Less.) Seckt 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium scaposum Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium scorzoneraefolium A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium tinctorium J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium urmenetae (Phil.) Cabrera 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium vallenariense (Phil.) Bierner 0 below the evidence gate
Helenium virginicum S.F.Blake 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.