Johnstonella

Accepted species 17 Documented here 8 Family Boraginaceae

Accepted species 17 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
Johnstonella angustifolia (Torr.) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 306 documented
Johnstonella racemosa (S.Watson ex A.Gray) Brand 28 documented
Johnstonella mexicana (Brandegee) M.E.Mabry & M.G.Simpson 27 documented
Johnstonella holoptera (A.Gray) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 25 documented
Johnstonella pusilla (Torr. & A.Gray) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 21 documented
Johnstonella costata (Brandegee) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 19 documented
Johnstonella albida (Kunth) M.E.Mabry & M.G.Simpson 10 documented
Johnstonella parviflora (Phil.) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 3 documented
Johnstonella inaequata (I.M.Johnst.) Brand 5 below the evidence gate
Johnstonella gypsites (I.M.Johnst.) Hasenstab & M.E.Mabry 2 below the evidence gate
Johnstonella angelica (I.M.Johnst.) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Johnstonella diplotricha (Phil.) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Johnstonella fastigiata (I.M.Johnst.) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Johnstonella geohintonii (B.L.Turner) M.G.Simpson & R.B.Kelley 0 below the evidence gate
Johnstonella grayi (Vasey & Rose) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Johnstonella punensis M.G.Simpson & Muñoz-Schick 0 below the evidence gate
Johnstonella sheylae G.S.Hinton 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.