Helianthus

Accepted species 78 Documented here 46 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 78 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
Helianthus annuus L. 2,950 documented
Helianthus tuberosus L. 955 documented
Helianthus maximiliani Schrad. 749 documented
Helianthus angustifolius L. 649 documented
Helianthus debilis Nutt. 494 documented
Helianthus divaricatus L. 450 documented
Helianthus hirsutus Raf. 299 documented
Helianthus gracilentus A.Gray 245 documented
Helianthus petiolaris Nutt. 226 documented
Helianthus mollis Lam. 197 documented
Helianthus atrorubens L. 191 documented
Helianthus grosseserratus M.Martens 184 documented
Helianthus radula (Pursh) Torr. & A.Gray 161 documented
Helianthus pauciflorus Nutt. 128 documented
Helianthus microcephalus Torr. & A.Gray 127 documented
Helianthus heterophyllus Nutt. 124 documented
Helianthus occidentalis Riddell 115 documented
Helianthus ciliaris DC. 92 documented
Helianthus schweinitzii Torr. & A.Gray 87 documented
Helianthus strumosus L. 79 documented
Helianthus giganteus L. 78 documented
Helianthus argophyllus Torr. & A.Gray 76 documented
Helianthus resinosus Small 72 documented
Helianthus porteri (A.Gray) Pruski 59 documented
Helianthus pumilus Nutt. 58 documented
Helianthus salicifolius A.Dietr. 50 documented
Helianthus exilis A.Gray 46 documented
Helianthus californicus DC. 42 documented
Helianthus praecox Engelm. & A.Gray 39 documented
Helianthus eggertii Small 36 documented
Helianthus laciniatus A.Gray 34 documented
Helianthus cusickii A.Gray 33 documented
Helianthus nuttallii Torr. & A.Gray 32 documented
Helianthus bolanderi A.Gray 24 documented
Helianthus longifolius Pursh 23 documented
Helianthus niveus (Benth.) Brandegee 21 documented
Helianthus winteri J.C.Stebbins 21 documented
Helianthus simulans E.Watson 19 documented
Helianthus verticillatus Small 19 documented
Helianthus carnosus Small 13 documented
Helianthus deserticola Heiser 12 documented
Helianthus agrestis Pollard 10 documented
Helianthus laevigatus Torr. & A.Gray 9 documented
Helianthus paradoxus Heiser 7 documented
Helianthus silphioides Nutt. 4 documented
Helianthus neglectus Heiser 3 documented
Helianthus anomalus S.F.Blake 1 below the evidence gate
Helianthus × ambiguus (Torr. & A.Gray) Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus × cinereus (Torr. & A.Gray) R.C.Jacks. & Guard 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus × glaucus Small 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus × intermedius R.W.Long 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus × laetiflorus Pers. 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus × luxurians E.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus ambiguus (Torr. & A.Gray) Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus apricus Lunell 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus arizonensis R.C.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus brevifolius E.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus cinereus Torr. & A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus coloradensis Cockerell 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus diffusus Sims 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus dissectifolius R.C.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus doronicoides Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus floridanus A.Gray ex Chapm. 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus glaucophyllus D.M.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus inexpectatus D.J.Keil & Elvin 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus kellermanii (Britton) R.W.Long 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus kellermanii Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus lenticularis Douglas ex Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus multiflorus L. 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus navarri Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus nitidus Lunell 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus orgyaloides Cockerell 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus parviflorus Bernh. ex Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus praetermissus E.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus smithii Heiser 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus subcanescens (A.Gray) E.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus subtuberosus Bourg. 0 below the evidence gate
Helianthus xambiguus (Torr. & A.Gray) Britton 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.