Herniaria

Accepted species 33 Documented here 6 Family Caryophyllaceae

Accepted species 33 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
Herniaria glabra L. 828 documented
Herniaria hirsuta L. 169 documented
Herniaria ciliolata Melderis 20 documented
Herniaria incana Lam. 11 documented
Herniaria polygama J.Gay 10 documented
Herniaria lusitanica Chaudhri 3 documented
Herniaria schlechteri F.Herm. 2 below the evidence gate
Herniaria alpina Chaix 1 below the evidence gate
Herniaria algarvica Chaudhri 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria austroamericana Chaudhri & Rutish. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria baetica Boiss. & Reut. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria boissieri J.Gay 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria bornmuelleri Chaudhri 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria cachemiriana J.Gay 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria capensis (Haw.) Steud. ex Bartl. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria caucasica Rupr. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria cyrenaica F.Herm. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria degenii (F.Herm.) Chaudhri 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria dichotoma (DC.) DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria fontanesii J.Gay 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria fruticosa L. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria grimmii F.Herm. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria hemistemon J.Gay 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria latifolia Lapeyr. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria maritima Link 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria nigrimontium F.Herm. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria olympica J.Gay 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria parnassica Heldr. & Sart. ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria permixta Jan ex Guss. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria regnieri Braun-Blanq. & Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria riphaea Font Quer 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria scabrida Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Herniaria setigera Gillies 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.