Itea

Accepted species 21 Documented here 4 Family Iteaceae

Accepted species 21 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
Itea virginica L. 533 documented
Itea oldhamii C.K.Schneid. 66 documented
Itea chinensis Hook. & Arn. 31 documented
Itea parviflora Hemsl. 28 documented
Itea rhamnoides (Harv.) Kubitzki 2 below the evidence gate
Itea amoena Chun 0 below the evidence gate
Itea coriacea Y.C.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Itea glutinosa Hand.-Mazz. 0 below the evidence gate
Itea ilicifolia Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Itea indochinensis Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Itea japonica Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Itea kiukiangensis C.C.Huang & S.C.Huang 0 below the evidence gate
Itea kwangsiensis H.T.Chang 0 below the evidence gate
Itea macrophylla Wall. 0 below the evidence gate
Itea maesifolia Elmer 0 below the evidence gate
Itea nutans Royle 0 below the evidence gate
Itea omeiensis C.K.Schneid. 0 below the evidence gate
Itea riparia Collett & Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Itea tenuinervia S.Y.Liu 0 below the evidence gate
Itea yangchunensis S.Y.Jin 0 below the evidence gate
Itea yunnanensis Franch. 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.