Lithospermum

Accepted species 80 Documented here 30 Family Boraginaceae

Accepted species 80 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
Lithospermum incisum Lehm. 1,085 documented
Lithospermum caroliniense (J.F.Gmel.) MacMill. 715 documented
Lithospermum ruderale Douglas ex Lehm. 674 documented
Lithospermum officinale L. 625 documented
Lithospermum canescens Lehm. 598 documented
Lithospermum multiflorum Torr. ex A.Gray 266 documented
Lithospermum occidentale (Mack.) Weakley, Witsell & D.Estes 164 documented
Lithospermum latifolium Michx. 136 documented
Lithospermum tuberosum Rugel ex A.DC. 94 documented
Lithospermum matamorense DC. 74 documented
Lithospermum mirabile Small 54 documented
Lithospermum parviflorum Weakley, Witsell & D.Estes 54 documented
Lithospermum californicum A.Gray 52 documented
Lithospermum helleri (Small) J.I.Cohen 49 documented
Lithospermum cobrense Greene 44 documented
Lithospermum virginianum L. 42 documented
Lithospermum molle (Michx.) Muhl. 37 documented
Lithospermum decipiens (J.R.Allison) Weakley, Witsell & D.Estes 33 documented
Lithospermum distichum Ortega 29 documented
Lithospermum viride Greene 19 documented
Lithospermum flavum Sessé & Moc. 16 documented
Lithospermum papillosum Thunb. 16 documented
Lithospermum erythrorhizon Siebold & Zucc. 9 documented
Lithospermum subsetosum (Mack. & Bush) Weakley, Witsell & D.Estes 9 documented
Lithospermum exsertum (D.Don) J.I.Cohen 8 documented
Lithospermum diversifolium DC. 5 documented
Lithospermum guatemalense Donn.Sm. 5 documented
Lithospermum rosei (I.M.Johnst.) J.I.Cohen 3 documented
Lithospermum scabrum Thunb. 3 documented
Lithospermum sylvestre J.I.Cohen & J.C.Manning 3 documented
Lithospermum calycosum I.M.Johnst. 2 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum nelsonii Greenm. 2 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum oblongifolium Greenm. 2 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum afromontanum Weim. 1 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum obovatum J.F.Macbr. 1 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum affine DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum album (G.L.Nesom) J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum altamiranense Pat.-Sicil., J.I.Cohen & Pérez-Calix 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum astienzae Pat.-Sicil., J.I.Cohen & Pérez-Calix 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum azuayense Weigend & Nürk 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum barbigerum (I.M.Johnst.) J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum berlandieri I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum bolivariense Weigend & Nürk 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum calcicola B.L.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum chiapense J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum cinerascens (A.DC.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum cinereum DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum confine I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum cuneifolium Pers. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum cuzcoense Weigend & Nürk 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum discolor M.Martens & Galeotti 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum dodrantale (I.M.Johnst.) J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum elenae Pat.-Sicil., J.I.Cohen & Zamudio 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum flexuosum Lehm. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum gayanum (Wedd.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum hirsutum E.Mey. ex DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum indecorum I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum ireneae Pat.-Sicil., J.I.Cohen & Zamudio 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum jimulcense I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum johnstonii J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum leonotis (I.M.Johnst.) J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum leymebambense Weigend & Nürk 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum macbridei I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum macromeria J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum mediale I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum muelleri I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum notatum (I.M.Johnst.) J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum oaxacanum (B.L.Turner) J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum peruvianum DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum pinetorum (I.M.Johnst.) J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum pringlei I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum revolutum B.L.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum rodriguezii Weigend & Nürk 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum rosmarinifolium Sessé & Moc. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum rzedowskii J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum strictum Lehm. 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum trinervium (Lehm.) J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum tubuliflorum Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum turneri J.I.Cohen 0 below the evidence gate
Lithospermum unicum (J.F.Macbr.) J.I.Cohen 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.