Lasthenia

Accepted species 20 Documented here 13 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 20 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
Lasthenia gracilis (DC.) Greene 298 documented
Lasthenia californica DC. ex Lindl. 138 documented
Lasthenia glaberrima DC. 70 documented
Lasthenia conjugens Greene 42 documented
Lasthenia coronaria (Nutt.) Ornduff 28 documented
Lasthenia minor (DC.) Ornduff 27 documented
Lasthenia microglossa Greene 22 documented
Lasthenia maritima (A.Gray) Ornduff 20 documented
Lasthenia ferrisiae Ornduff 19 documented
Lasthenia fremontii Greene 9 documented
Lasthenia glabrata Lindl. 8 documented
Lasthenia debilis (Greene ex A.Gray) Ornduff 4 documented
Lasthenia burkei Greene 3 documented
Lasthenia carnosa (Greene) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Lasthenia chrysantha Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Lasthenia kunthii Hook. & Arn. 0 below the evidence gate
Lasthenia leptalea (A.Gray) Ornduff 0 below the evidence gate
Lasthenia ornduffii R.Chan 0 below the evidence gate
Lasthenia platycarpha Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Lasthenia tenella (Nutt.) Greene 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.