Oreocarya

Accepted species 67 Documented here 27 Family Boraginaceae

Accepted species 67 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
Oreocarya confertiflora Greene 168 documented
Oreocarya glomerata Greene 128 documented
Oreocarya suffruticosa (Torr.) Greene 121 documented
Oreocarya flavoculata A.Nelson 99 documented
Oreocarya virgata (Porter) Greene 69 documented
Oreocarya flava A.Nelson 66 documented
Oreocarya humilis (A.Gray) Greene 41 documented
Oreocarya hoffmannii (I.M.Johnst.) Abrams 32 documented
Oreocarya thyrsiflora Greene 28 documented
Oreocarya cana A.Nelson 24 documented
Oreocarya abortiva Greene 19 documented
Oreocarya spiculifera Piper 19 documented
Oreocarya setosissima (A.Gray) Greene 16 documented
Oreocarya oblata (M.E.Jones) J.F.Macbr. 13 documented
Oreocarya palmeri (A.Gray) Greene 12 documented
Oreocarya caespitosa A.Nelson 10 documented
Oreocarya fulvocanescens (S.Watson) Greene 9 documented
Oreocarya crassipes (I.M.Johnst.) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 8 documented
Oreocarya propria A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. 8 documented
Oreocarya crymophila (I.M.Johnst.) Jeps. & Hoover 6 documented
Oreocarya paysonii J.F.Macbr. 6 documented
Oreocarya nubigena Greene 5 documented
Oreocarya bakeri Greene 4 documented
Oreocarya capitata Eastw. 4 documented
Oreocarya thompsonii (I.M.Johnst.) Abrams 4 documented
Oreocarya paradoxa A.Nelson 3 documented
Oreocarya weberi (I.M.Johnst.) W.A.Weber 3 documented
Oreocarya insolita J.F.Macbr. 3 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya tumulosa Payson 3 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya barnebyi (I.M.Johnst.) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 2 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya rugulosa Payson 2 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya tenuis Eastw. 2 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya longiflora A.Nelson 1 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya sobolifera (Payson) R.B.Kelley 1 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya stricta Osterh. 1 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya aperta Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya atwoodii (L.C.Higgins) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya breviflora Osterh. 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya celosioides Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya compacta (L.C.Higgins) R.B.Kelley 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya creutzfeldtii (S.L.Welsh) R.B.Kelley 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya depressa (M.E.Jones) J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya elata Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya grahamii (I.M.Johnst.) R.B.Kelley 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya hypsophila (I.M.Johnst.) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya interrupta Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya johnstonii (L.C.Higgins) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya jonesiana Payson 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya leucophaea (Douglas ex Lehm.) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya macounii Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya mensana (M.E.Jones) Payson 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya ochroleuca (L.C.Higgins) R.B.Kelley 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya osterhoutii Payson 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya revealii W.A.Weber & R.C.Wittmann 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya rollinsii (I.M.Johnst.) W.A.Weber 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya roosiorum (Munz) R.B.Kelley, Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya salmonensis A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya schoolcraftii (Tiehm) R.B.Kelley 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya semiglabra (Barneby) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya sericea (A.Gray) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya shackletteana (L.C.Higgins) R.B.Kelley 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya sheldonii Brand 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya subcapitata (Dorn & Lichvar) R.B.Kelley 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya subretusa (I.M.Johnst.) Abrams 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya welshii (K.H.Thorne & L.C.Higgins) R.B.Kelley 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya wetherillii Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Oreocarya worthingtonii Sivinski 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.