Onopordum

Accepted species 54 Documented here 11 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 54 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
Onopordum acanthium L. 1,352 documented
Onopordum illyricum L. 74 documented
Onopordum macracanthum Schousb. 38 documented
Onopordum boissierianum Raab-Straube & Greuter 25 documented
Onopordum acaulon L. 21 documented
Onopordum nervosum Boiss. 13 documented
Onopordum bracteatum Boiss. & Heldr. 11 documented
Onopordum tauricum Willd. 6 documented
Onopordum cynarocephalum Boiss. & C.I.Blanche 5 documented
Onopordum caulescens d'Urv. 4 documented
Onopordum dissectum Murb. 3 documented
Onopordum leptolepis DC. 2 below the evidence gate
Onopordum alexandrinum Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum algeriense (Munby) Pomel 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum ambiguum Fresen. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum anatolicum Boiss. & Heldr. ex Eig 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum arenarium (Desf.) Pomel 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum armenum Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum blancheanum (Eig) Danin 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum canum Eig 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum carduchorum Bornm. & Beauverd 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum carduelium Bolle 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum carduiforme Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum carmanicum (Bornm.) Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum cinereum Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum corymbosum Willk. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum cyrenaicum Maire & Weiller 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum dyris Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum elongatum Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum eriocephalum Rouy 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum espinae Coss. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum heteracanthum C.A.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum hinojense Talavera, Balao, Casim.-Sor., M.Talavera, Terrab & M.Á.Ortiz 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum horridum Viv. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum humile Loscos ex Pau 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum laconicum Heldr. & Sartori ex Rouy 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum macranthum 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum macrocanthum d'Urv. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum macrocephalum Eig 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum magrebiense Talavera, Balao, Casim.-Sor., M.Talavera, Terrab & M.Á.Ortiz 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum majori Beauverd 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum mesatlanticum Emb. & Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum micropterum Pau 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum minor L. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum myriacanthum Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum nogalesi Svent. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum parnassicum Boiss. & Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum platylepis Coss. ex Murb. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum polycephalum Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum prjachinii Tamamsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum seravschanicum Tamamsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum sibthorpianum Boiss. & Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum turcicum Danin 0 below the evidence gate
Onopordum wallianum Maire 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.