Luzula

Accepted species 144 Documented here 45 Family Juncaceae

Accepted species 144 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
Luzula pilosa (L.) Willd. 934 documented
Luzula campestris (L.) DC. 910 documented
Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) Gaudin 416 documented
Luzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej. 353 documented
Luzula luzuloides (Lam.) Dandy & Wilmott 276 documented
Luzula acuminata Raf. 231 documented
Luzula parviflora (Ehrh.) Desv. 205 documented
Luzula nivea (L.) DC. 169 documented
Luzula echinata (Small) F.J.Herm. 146 documented
Luzula pallescens Sw. 74 documented
Luzula meridionalis H.Nordensk. 69 documented
Luzula comosa E.Mey. 64 documented
Luzula forsteri (Sm.) DC. 63 documented
Luzula spicata (L.) DC. 56 documented
Luzula subsessilis (S.Watson) Buchenau 42 documented
Luzula capitata (Miq. ex Franch. & Sav.) Kom. 39 documented
Luzula macrantha (S.Watson) Zika & B.L.Wilson 37 documented
Luzula bulbosa (Alph.Wood) Smyth & L.C.R.Smyth 29 documented
Luzula colensoi Hook.f. 20 documented
Luzula lutea (All.) DC. 19 documented
Luzula rufescens Fisch. ex E.Mey. 16 documented
Luzula taiwaniana Satake 15 documented
Luzula congesta (Thuill.) Lej. 14 documented
Luzula hawaiiensis Buchenau 12 documented
Luzula orestera Sharsm. 12 documented
Luzula banksiana E.Mey. 11 documented
Luzula lactea (Link) E.Mey. 10 documented
Luzula rufa Edgar 10 documented
Luzula alpinopilosa (Chaix) Breistr. 9 documented
Luzula pumila Hook.f. 9 documented
Luzula canariensis Poir. 8 documented
Luzula glabrata (Hoppe) Desv. 8 documented
Luzula kjellmaniana Miyabe & Kudô 7 documented
Luzula ulophylla (Buchenau) Cockayne & Laing 7 documented
Luzula vulcanica Liebm. 7 documented
Luzula hitchcockii Hämet-Ahti 6 documented
Luzula picta A.Rich. 6 documented
Luzula alpina Hoppe 5 documented
Luzula wahlenbergii Rupr. 5 documented
Luzula divulgata Kirschner 4 documented
Luzula effusa Buchenau 4 documented
Luzula luzulina (Vill.) Racib. 4 documented
Luzula masafuerana Skottsb. 4 documented
Luzula alopecurus Desv. 3 documented
Luzula sudetica (Willd.) Schult. 3 documented
Luzula stenophylla Steud. 2 below the evidence gate
Luzula subcongesta (S.Watson) Jeps. 2 below the evidence gate
Luzula arcuata (Wahlenb.) Sw. 1 below the evidence gate
Luzula celata Edgar 1 below the evidence gate
Luzula confusa Lindeb. 1 below the evidence gate
Luzula densiflora (H.Nordensk.) Edgar 1 below the evidence gate
Luzula flaccida (Buchenau) Edgar 1 below the evidence gate
Luzula gigantea Desv. 1 below the evidence gate
Luzula modesta Buchenau 1 below the evidence gate
Luzula racemosa Desv. 1 below the evidence gate
Luzula × bogdanii Kirschner 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula × danica H.Nordensk. & Kirschner 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula × favratii K.Richt. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula × gayana Font Quer & Rothm. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula × heddae Kirschner 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula × hermannii-muelleri Asch. & Graebn. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula × hybrida H.Lindb. ex Kirschner 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula × media Kirschner 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula × romanica J.Dvorák & Vorel 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula × somedana Fern-Carv. & Fern.Prieto 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula abchasica Novikov 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula abyssinica Parl. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula acutifolia H.Nordensk. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula africana Drège ex Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula alpestris H.Nordensk. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula antarctica Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula atlantica Braun-Blanq. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula atrata Edgar 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula australasica Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula bomiensis K.F.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula bornmuelleriana Kük. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula borreri Bromf. ex Bab. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula brachyphylla Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula brevispicata Knjaz. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula caespitosa (J.Gay ex E.Mey.) Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula calabra Ten. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula caricina E.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula cascadensis Zika 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula chilensis Nees & Meyen ex Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula crenulata Buchenau 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula crinita Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula decipiens Edgar 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula denticulata Liebm. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula desvauxii Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula divaricata S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula divulgatiformis Bacic & Jogan 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula ecuadoriensis Balslev 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula elegans Lowe 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula excelsa Buchenau 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula exspectata Bacic & Jogan 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula fallax Kirschner 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula formosana Ohwi 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula groenlandica Böcher 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula hasleri Murr 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula ignivoma Kirschner 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula inaequalis K.F.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula indica Kirschner 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula jimboi Miyabe & Kudô 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula johannis-principis Murr 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula johnstonii Buchenau 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula kobayasii Satake 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula leiboldii Buchenau 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula leptophylla Buchenau & Petrie 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula levieri Asch. & Graebn. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula longiflora Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula lutescens (Koidz.) Kirschner & Miyam. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula mannii (Buchenau) Kirschner & Cheek 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula mauretanica (Maire & Trab.) Rivas Mart., Molero Mesa, Marfíl & G.Benítez 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula mendocina Barros 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula nipponica (Satake) Kirschner & Miyam. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula nivalis (Laest.) Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula nodulosa E.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula novae-cambriae Gand. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula odaesanensis Y.N.Lee & Chae ex M.Kim 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula oligantha Sam. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula ostenii (Mattf.) Herter 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula ovata Edgar 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula papuana M.E.Jansen 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula pedemontana Boiss. & Reut. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula pediformis (Chaix) DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula peruviana Desv. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula pfaffii Murr 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula philippinensis M.E.Jansen 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula pindica (Hausskn.) Chrtek & Krísa 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula piperi (Coville) M.E.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula plumosa E.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula poimena W.M.Curtis 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula purpureosplendens Seub. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula ruiz-lealii Barros 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula seubertii Lowe 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula sichuanensis K.F.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula subcapitata (Rydb.) H.D.Harr. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula taurica (V.I.Krecz.) Novikov 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula tristachya Desv. 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula ulei Buchenau 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula vinesii Murr 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula wettsteinii Buchenau 0 below the evidence gate
Luzula winderiae Murr 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.