Osteospermum

Accepted species 57 Documented here 39 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 57 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
Osteospermum polygaloides L. 271 documented
Osteospermum polygaloides Thunb. 271 documented
Osteospermum monstrosum (Burm.f.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 203 documented
Osteospermum ciliatum P.J.Bergius 174 documented
Osteospermum junceum Thunb. ex Harv. 166 documented
Osteospermum junceum P.J.Bergius 166 documented
Osteospermum corymbosum L. 150 documented
Osteospermum pinnatum (Thunb.) Norl. 148 documented
Osteospermum spinosum L. 125 documented
Osteospermum asperulum (DC.) Norl. 99 documented
Osteospermum rotundifolium (DC.) Norl. 85 documented
Osteospermum ecklonis (DC.) Norl. 83 documented
Osteospermum calendulaceum L.f. 81 documented
Osteospermum sinuatum (DC.) Norl. 78 documented
Osteospermum oppositifolium (Ait.) Norl. 73 documented
Osteospermum triquetrum L.f. 47 documented
Osteospermum scariosum DC. 44 documented
Osteospermum imbricatum L. 35 documented
Osteospermum imbricatum Harv. 35 documented
Osteospermum bolusii (Compton) Norl. 30 documented
Osteospermum muricatum E.Mey. ex DC. 28 documented
Osteospermum microcarpum (Harv.) Norl. 27 documented
Osteospermum glabrum N.E.Br. 18 documented
Osteospermum leptolobum (Harv.) Norl. 17 documented
Osteospermum grandidentatum DC. 14 documented
Osteospermum calcicola (J.C.Manning & Goldblatt) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 11 documented
Osteospermum australe B.Nord. 10 documented
Osteospermum subulatum DC. 10 documented
Osteospermum elsieae Norl. 9 documented
Osteospermum polypterum (DC.) R.Sadler 9 documented
Osteospermum potbergense A.R.Wood & B.Nord. 8 documented
Osteospermum rigidum Aiton 8 documented
Osteospermum acanthospermum (DC.) Norl. 7 documented
Osteospermum thodei Markötter 7 documented
Osteospermum aciphyllum DC. 5 documented
Osteospermum microphyllum DC. 5 documented
Osteospermum spinescens Thunb. 5 documented
Osteospermum burttianum B.Nord. 3 documented
Osteospermum hispidum Harv. 3 documented
Osteospermum pyrifolium Norl. 1 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum apterum (B.Nord.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum armatum Norl. 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum attenuatum Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum bidens Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum fruticosum (L.) Norl. 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum grandiflorum DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum hafstroemii Norl. 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum herbaceum L.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum hirsutum Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum karooicum (Bolus) Norl. 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum lanceolatum DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum monocephalum (Oliver & Hiern) Norl. 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum montanum Klatt 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum nordenstamii J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum norlindhianum J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum pterigoideum Klatt 0 below the evidence gate
Osteospermum striatum Burtt Davy 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.