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.
| Species | Authority | Usable photographs | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mertensia virginica | (L.) Pers. ex Link | 2,457 | documented |
| Mertensia ciliata | (E.James ex Torr.) G.Don | 239 | documented |
| Mertensia maritima | (L.) Gray | 180 | documented |
| Mertensia lanceolata | (Pursh) DC. | 107 | documented |
| Mertensia longiflora | Greene | 86 | documented |
| Mertensia franciscana | A.Heller | 44 | documented |
| Mertensia fendleri | A.Gray | 32 | documented |
| Mertensia subcordata | Greene | 27 | documented |
| Mertensia arizonica | Greene | 24 | documented |
| Mertensia brevistyla | S.Watson | 11 | documented |
| Mertensia tweedyi | Rydb. | 11 | documented |
| Mertensia macdougalii | A.Heller | 8 | documented |
| Mertensia bakeri | Greene | 6 | documented |
| Mertensia simplicissima | G.Don | 5 | documented |
| Mertensia brachycalyx | Piper | 4 | documented |
| Mertensia nevadensis | A.Nelson | 4 | documented |
| Mertensia platyphylla | A.Heller | 4 | documented |
| Mertensia davurica | (Sims) G.Don | 3 | documented |
| Mertensia stylosa | (Fisch.) DC. | 3 | documented |
| Mertensia kamczatica | DC. | 1 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia bella | Piper | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia brachyloba | Greene | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia campanulata | A.Nelson | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia cana | Rydb. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia coronata | A.Nelson | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia cusickii | in Piper | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia cynoglossoides | Greene | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia dahurica | G.Don | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia eastwoodiae | J.F.Macbr. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia grahamii | (L.O.Williams) Nazaire & L.Hufford | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia humilis | Rydb. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia lateriflora | Greene | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia lineariloba | Rydb. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia longipedunculata | (A.Nelson) Nazaire & L.Hufford | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia mexicana | L.O.Williams | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia meyeriana | J.F.Macbr. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia nivalis | (S.Watson) Rydb. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia oreophila | L.O.Williams | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia ovata | Rydb. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia pallasii | (Ledeb.) G.Don | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia parvifolia | (L.O.Williams) Nazaire & L.Hufford | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia pratensis | A.Heller | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia pterocarpa | (Turcz.) Tatew. & Ohwi | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia rivularis | DC. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia serrulata | DC. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia serrulata | (Turcz.) DC. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia sibirica | G.Don | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia sinica | Kamelin | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia umbratilis | Greenm. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Mertensia viridis | (A.Nelson) A.Nelson | 0 | below the evidence 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.