Nolina

Accepted species 30 Documented here 19 Family Asparagaceae

Accepted species 30 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
Nolina microcarpa S.Watson 578 documented
Nolina texana S.Watson 424 documented
Nolina bigelovii (Torr.) S.Watson 353 documented
Nolina lindheimeriana (Scheele) S.Watson 218 documented
Nolina parryi S.Watson 218 documented
Nolina cismontana Dice 38 documented
Nolina interrata Gentry 36 documented
Nolina brittoniana Nash 33 documented
Nolina cespitifera Trel. 33 documented
Nolina erumpens (Torr.) S.Watson 32 documented
Nolina atopocarpa Bartlett 22 documented
Nolina parviflora (Kunth) Hemsl. 22 documented
Nolina greenei S.Watson ex Wooton & Standl. 18 documented
Nolina micrantha I.M.Johnst. 11 documented
Nolina georgiana Michx. 6 documented
Nolina beldingii Brandegee 5 documented
Nolina durangensis Trel. 5 documented
Nolina palmeri S.Watson 5 documented
Nolina excelsa García-Mend. & E.Solano 4 documented
Nolina juncea (Zucc.) J.F.Macbr. 1 below the evidence gate
Nolina arenicola Correll 0 below the evidence gate
Nolina azureogladiata D.Donati 0 below the evidence gate
Nolina hibernica Hochstätter & D.Donati 0 below the evidence gate
Nolina humilis S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Nolina matapensis Wiggins 0 below the evidence gate
Nolina nelsonii Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Nolina pollyjeanneae Hochstätter 0 below the evidence gate
Nolina pumila Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Nolina rigida Trel. 0 below the evidence gate
Nolina watsonii (Baker) Hemsl. 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.