Mentzelia

Accepted species 100 Documented here 51 Family Loasaceae

Accepted species 100 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
Mentzelia laevicaulis (Douglas ex Hook.) Torr. & A.Gray 410 documented
Mentzelia oligosperma Nutt. ex Sims 289 documented
Mentzelia involucrata S.Watson 254 documented
Mentzelia albicaulis (Douglas ex Hook.) Douglas ex Torr. & A.Gray 197 documented
Mentzelia lindleyi Torr. & A.Gray 183 documented
Mentzelia procera (Wooton & Standl.) J.J.Schenk & L.Hufford 151 documented
Mentzelia nuda (Pursh) Torr. & A.Gray 124 documented
Mentzelia hispida Willd. 110 documented
Mentzelia longiloba J.Darl. 83 documented
Mentzelia decapetala (Sims) Urb. 74 documented
Mentzelia adhaerens Benth. 69 documented
Mentzelia aspera L. 59 documented
Mentzelia multiflora (Nutt.) A.Gray 54 documented
Mentzelia nitens Greene 53 documented
Mentzelia pectinata Kellogg 48 documented
Mentzelia micrantha (Hook. & Arn.) Torr. & A.Gray 46 documented
Mentzelia albescens (Gillies ex Arn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Griseb. 37 documented
Mentzelia montana (Davidson) Davidson 34 documented
Mentzelia scabra Kunth 31 documented
Mentzelia oreophila J.Darl. 29 documented
Mentzelia gracilenta Torr. & A.Gray 28 documented
Mentzelia reflexa Coville 28 documented
Mentzelia floridana Nutt. 27 documented
Mentzelia tricuspis A.Gray 27 documented
Mentzelia todiltoensis N.D.Atwood & S.L.Welsh 23 documented
Mentzelia torreyi A.Gray 20 documented
Mentzelia veatchiana Kellogg 20 documented
Mentzelia crocea Kellogg 18 documented
Mentzelia rusbyi Wooton 18 documented
Mentzelia strictissima (Wooton & Standl.) J.Darl. 18 documented
Mentzelia congesta (Nutt.) Torr. & A.Gray 15 documented
Mentzelia hirsutissima S.Watson 15 documented
Mentzelia humilis (Urb. & Gilg) J.Darl. 14 documented
Mentzelia sivinskii J.J.Schenk & L.Hufford 13 documented
Mentzelia dispersa S.Watson 12 documented
Mentzelia packardiae Glad 12 documented
Mentzelia puberula J.Darl. 12 documented
Mentzelia affinis Greene 9 documented
Mentzelia inyoensis H.J.Thomps. & Prigge 9 documented
Mentzelia parvifolia Urb. & Gilg ex Kurtz 9 documented
Mentzelia solieri (Gay) Urb. & Gilg 9 documented
Mentzelia texana Urb. & Gilg 9 documented
Mentzelia jonesii (Urb. & Gilg) H.J.Thomps. & J.E.Roberts 7 documented
Mentzelia tridentata (Davidson) H.J.Thomps. & J.E.Roberts 7 documented
Mentzelia integra (M.E.Jones) Tidestr. 6 documented
Mentzelia leucophylla Brandegee 6 documented
Mentzelia reverchonii (Urb. & Gilg) H.J.Thomps. & Zavort. 6 documented
Mentzelia speciosa Osterh. 6 documented
Mentzelia isolata Gentry 3 documented
Mentzelia springeri (Standl.) Tidestr. 3 documented
Mentzelia tiehmii N.H.Holmgren & P.K.Holmgren 3 documented
Mentzelia arborescens Urb. & Gilg 2 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia lindheimeri Urb. & Gilg 2 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia mexicana H.J.Thomps. & Zavort. 2 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia angurate Weigend 1 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia memorabilis N.H.Holmgren & P.K.Holmgren 1 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia argillicola N.H.Holmgren & P.K.Holmgren 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia argillosa J.Darl. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia asperula Wooton & Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia candelariae H.J.Thomps. & Prigge 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia canyonensis J.J.Schenk, W.C.Hodgs. & L.Hufford 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia chrysantha Engelm. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia collomiae Christy 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia conspicua Todsen 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia conzattii Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia cronquistii H.J.Thomps. & Prigge 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia densa Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia desertorum (Davidson) H.J.Thomps. & J.E.Roberts 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia eremophila (Jeps.) H.J.Thomps. & J.E.Roberts 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia filifolia J.J.Schenk & L.Hufford 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia flumensevera (N.H.Holmgren & P.K.Holmgren) J.J.Schenk & L.Hufford 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia goodrichii Thorne & S.L.Welsh 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia gypsophila B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia heterosepala Weigend & E.Rodr. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia holmgreniorum J.J.Schenk & L.Hufford 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia hualapaiensis J.J.Schenk, W.C.Hodgs. & L.Hufford 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia incisa Urb. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia laciniata (Rydb.) J.Darl. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia lagarosa (K.H.Thorne) J.J.Schenk & L.Hufford 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia librina (K.H.Thorne & F.J.Sm.) J.J.Schenk & L.Hufford 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia marginata (Osterh.) H.J.Thomps. & Prigge 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia mollis M.Peck 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia monoensis Brokaw & L.Hufford 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia multicaulis (Osterh.) J.Darl. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia nesiotes (I.M.Johnst.) Brokaw & J.J.Schenk 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia obscura H.J.Thomps. & J.E.Roberts 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia pachyrhiza I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia paradoxensis J.J.Schenk & L.Hufford 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia pattersonii B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia perennis Wooton 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia polita A.Nelson 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia pterosperma Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia pumila Torr. & A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia ravenii H.J.Thomps. & J.E.Roberts 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia rhizomata Reveal 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia saxicola H.J.Thomps. & Zavort. 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia sericea Weigend 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia shultziorum Prigge 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia thompsonii Glad 0 below the evidence gate
Mentzelia uintahensis (N.H.Holmgren & P.K.Holmgren) J.J.Schenk & L.Hufford 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.