Maianthemum

Accepted species 40 Documented here 14 Family Asparagaceae

Accepted species 40 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
Maianthemum canadense Desf. 5,213 documented
Maianthemum racemosum (L.) Link 4,792 documented
Maianthemum stellatum (L.) Link 2,728 documented
Maianthemum bifolium (L.) F.W.Schmidt 1,699 documented
Maianthemum dilatatum (Alph.Wood) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. 944 documented
Maianthemum trifolium (L.) Sloboda 208 documented
Maianthemum japonicum (A.Gray) LaFrankie 53 documented
Maianthemum flexuosum (Bertol.) LaFrankie 38 documented
Maianthemum gigas (Woodson) LaFrankie 23 documented
Maianthemum scilloideum (M.Martens & Galeotti) LaFrankie 23 documented
Maianthemum formosanum (Hayata) LaFrankie 22 documented
Maianthemum purpureum (Wall.) LaFrankie 7 documented
Maianthemum oleraceum (Baker) LaFrankie 6 documented
Maianthemum paniculatum (M.Martens & Galeotti) LaFrankie 4 documented
Maianthemum dahuricum (Turcz. ex Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) LaFrankie 1 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum monteverdense LaFrankie 1 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum amoenum (H.L.Wendl.) LaFrankie 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum atropurpureum (Franch.) LaFrankie 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum bicolor (Nakai) Cubey 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum comaltepecense Espejo, López-Ferr. & Ceja 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum forrestii (W.W.Sm.) LaFrankie 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum fusciduliflorum (Kawano) S.C.Chen & Kawano 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum fuscum (Wall.) LaFrankie 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum gongshanensis (S.Yun Liang) H.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum henryi (Baker) LaFrankie 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum intermedium Vorosch. 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum lichiangense (W.W.Sm.) LaFrankie 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum macrophyllum (M.Martens & Galeotti) LaFrankie 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum mexicanum García Arév. 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum nanchuanense H.Li & J.L.Huang 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum paludicola LaFrankie 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum robustum (Makino & Honda) LaFrankie 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum salvinii (Baker) LaFrankie 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum shaolinchii S.S.Ying 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum stenolobum (Franch.) S.C.Chen & Kawano 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum szechuanicum (F.T.Wang & Tang) H.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum tatsienense (Franch.) LaFrankie 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum tubiferum (Batalin) LaFrankie 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum viridiflorum (Nakai ex Makino & Nemoto) H.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Maianthemum yesoense (Franch. & Sav.) LaFrankie 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.