Lotus

Accepted species 136 Documented here 45 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 136 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
Lotus corniculatus L. 7,755 documented
Lotus pedunculatus Cav. 1,030 documented
Lotus subbiflorus Lag. 565 documented
Lotus maritimus L. 277 documented
Lotus tenuis Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd. 231 documented
Lotus hirsutus L. 199 documented
Lotus dorycnium L. 194 documented
Lotus creticus L. 117 documented
Lotus ornithopodioides L. 99 documented
Lotus herbaceus (Vill.) Jauzein 70 documented
Lotus germanicus (Gremli) Peruzzi 68 documented
Lotus tetragonolobus L. 61 documented
Lotus cytisoides L. 60 documented
Lotus edulis L. 55 documented
Lotus rectus L. 42 documented
Lotus angustissimus L. 39 documented
Lotus alpinus (Ser.) Schleich. ex Ramond 38 documented
Lotus parviflorus Desf. 30 documented
Lotus glaucus Aiton 25 documented
Lotus palustris Willd. 25 documented
Lotus longisiliquosus R.Roem. 24 documented
Lotus australis Andrews 23 documented
Lotus graecus L. 21 documented
Lotus tetraphyllus L. 18 documented
Lotus glinoides Delile 17 documented
Lotus lancerottensis Webb & Berthel. 17 documented
Lotus borbasii Ujhelyi 14 documented
Lotus maculatus Breitf. 13 documented
Lotus ononopsis Balf.f. 12 documented
Lotus cruentus Court 11 documented
Lotus conimbricensis Brot. 7 documented
Lotus halophilus Boiss. & Spruner 7 documented
Lotus tenellus (Lowe) Sandral, A.Santos & D.D.Sokoloff 7 documented
Lotus discolor E.Mey. 6 documented
Lotus drepanocarpus Durieu 6 documented
Lotus arabicus Sol. ex L. 5 documented
Lotus arinagensis Bramwell 5 documented
Lotus biflorus Desr. 5 documented
Lotus campylocladus Webb & Berthel. 5 documented
Lotus krylovii Schischk. & Serg. 5 documented
Lotus peregrinus L. 4 documented
Lotus taitungensis S.S.Ying 4 documented
Lotus macranthus Lowe 3 documented
Lotus oliveirae A.Chev. 3 documented
Lotus stepposus Kramina 3 documented
Lotus kunkelii (Esteve) Bramwell & D.H.Davis 4 below the evidence gate
Lotus japonicus (Regel) K.Larsen 2 below the evidence gate
Lotus sessilifolius DC. 2 below the evidence gate
Lotus × davyae Druce 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus × medioximus Husn. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus × minoricensis M.À.Conesa, Mus & Rosselló 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus × ucrainicus Klokov 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus aduncus (Griseb.) Nyman 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus aegeus (Griseb.) Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus albarracinensis Sennen 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus alianus J.H.Kirkbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus anfractuosus (Baker f.) Kramina & D.D.Sokoloff 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus arenarius Brot. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus argyrodes R.P.Murray 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus assakensis Coss. ex Brand 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus axilliflorus (Hub.-Mor.) D.D.Sokoloff 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus becquetii Boutique 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus benoistii (Maire) Lassen 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus berthelotii Masf. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus brezalis A.A.Weller 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus broussonetii Choisy ex Ser. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus brunneri Webb 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus burttii Borsos 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus callis-viridis Bramwell & D.H.Davis 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus carpetanus Lacaita 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus castellanus Boiss. & Reut. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus chazaliei H.Boissieu 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus chevalieri Rivas Mart., Lousã, J.C.Costa & Maria C.Duarte 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus compactus Chrtková 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus conjugatus L. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus divaricatus Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus dumetorum Webb ex R.P.Murray 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus dunkelii A.A.Weller 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus emeroides R.P.Murray 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus eremiticus A.Santos 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus eriophthalmus Webb & Berthel. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus frailensis A.A.Weller 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus frondosus (Freyn) Kuprian. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus fulgurans (Porta) D.D.Sokoloff 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus garcinii Ser. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus gebelia Vent. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus glacialis (Boiss.) Pau 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus glareosus Boiss. & Reut. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus goetzei Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus gomerythus A.Portero, J.Martín-Carbajal & R.Mesa 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus hebecarpus J.B.Gillett 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus hebranicus Hochst. ex Brand 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus holosericeus Webb & Berthel. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus jacobaeus L. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus jolyi Batt. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus lalambensis Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus lanuginosus Vent. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus laricus Rech.f., Aellen & Esfand. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus lebrunii Boutique 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus lourdes-santiagoi Pina & Valdés 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus loweanus Webb & Berthel. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus luteus J.Harrison 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus maroccanus Ball 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus mascaensis Burchard 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus michauxianus Ser. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus miyakojimae Kramina 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus mlanjeanus J.B.Gillett 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus mollis Balf.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus namulensis Brand 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus nubicus Hochst. ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus peczoricus Miniaev & Ulle 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus polyphyllos E.D.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus pseudocreticus Maire, Weiller & Wilczek 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus pseudodumetorum A.A.Weller 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus purpureus Webb 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus pyranthus P.Pérez 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus quinatus (Forssk.) J.B.Gillett 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus rechingeri Chrtková 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus requienii Mauri ex Sanguin. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus reyes-betancortii A.A.Weller 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus robsonii E.S.Martins & D.D.Sokoloff 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus sanguineus (Vural) D.D.Sokoloff 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus schoelleri Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus simoneae Maire, Weiller & Wilczek 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus spartioides Webb & Berthel. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus spectabilis Choisy ex Ser. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus strictus Fisch. & C.A.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus subdigitatus Boutique 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus subglaber Charit. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus tibesticus Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus torulosus (Chiov.) Fiori 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus villicarpus Andr. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus villosus Burm.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus weilleri Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus wildii J.B.Gillett 0 below the evidence gate
Lotus zemmouriensis C.Chatel., F.Andrieu & Dobignard 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.