Heterotheca

Accepted species 28 Documented here 18 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 28 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
Heterotheca subaxillaris (Lam.) Britton & Rusby 2,022 documented
Heterotheca grandiflora Nutt. 1,129 documented
Heterotheca canescens (DC.) Shinners 271 documented
Heterotheca sessiliflora (Nutt.) Shinners 181 documented
Heterotheca polothrix G.L.Nesom 69 documented
Heterotheca inuloides Cass. 66 documented
Heterotheca zionensis Semple 62 documented
Heterotheca mucronata V.L.Harms ex B.L.Turner 42 documented
Heterotheca mucronata V.L.Harms 42 documented
Heterotheca camporum (Greene) Shinners 34 documented
Heterotheca stenophylla (A.Gray) Shinners 34 documented
Heterotheca fulcrata (Greene) Shinners 32 documented
Heterotheca fastigiata (Greene) V.L.Harms 19 documented
Heterotheca pumila (Greene) Semple 14 documented
Heterotheca viscida (A.Gray) V.L.Harms 14 documented
Heterotheca sierrablancensis (Semple) G.L.Nesom 6 documented
Heterotheca brandegeei (B.L.Rob. & Greenm.) Semple 5 documented
Heterotheca marginata Semple 5 documented
Heterotheca arizonica (Semple) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Heterotheca barbata (Rydb.) Semple 0 below the evidence gate
Heterotheca brandegei (B.L.Rob. & Greenm.) Semple 0 below the evidence gate
Heterotheca gypsophila B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Heterotheca jonesii (S.F.Blake) S.L.Welsh & N.D.Atwood 0 below the evidence gate
Heterotheca leptoglossa DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Heterotheca mexicana V.L.Harms ex B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Heterotheca monarchensis D.A.York, Shevock & Semple 0 below the evidence gate
Heterotheca rutteri (Rothr.) Shinners 0 below the evidence gate
Heterotheca shevockii (Semple) Semple 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.