Monarda

Accepted species 23 Documented here 19 Family Lamiaceae

Accepted species 23 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
Monarda fistulosa L. 2,430 documented
Monarda punctata L. 1,308 documented
Monarda citriodora Cerv. ex Lag. 1,282 documented
Monarda didyma L. 247 documented
Monarda clinopodia L. 168 documented
Monarda pectinata Nutt. 148 documented
Monarda bradburyana L.C.Beck 113 documented
Monarda clinopodioides A.Gray 68 documented
Monarda russeliana Nutt. ex Sims 53 documented
Monarda fruticulosa Epling 20 documented
Monarda austroappalachiana Floden 19 documented
Monarda humilis (Torr.) Prather & J.A.Keith 17 documented
Monarda maritima (Cory) Correll 10 documented
Monarda media Willd. 9 documented
Monarda luteola Singhurst & W.C.Holmes 8 documented
Monarda pringlei Fernald 8 documented
Monarda lindheimeri Engelm. & A.Gray 7 documented
Monarda stanfieldii Small 6 documented
Monarda viridissima Correll 5 documented
Monarda × medioides W.H.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Monarda bartlettii Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Monarda brevis (Fosberg & Artz) Floden 0 below the evidence gate
Monarda eplingiana Standl. 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.