Pediomelum

Accepted species 24 Documented here 18 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Pediomelum tenuiflorum (Pursh) A.N.Egan 454 documented
Pediomelum argophyllum (Pursh) J.W.Grimes 180 documented
Pediomelum esculentum (Pursh) Rydb. 169 documented
Pediomelum linearifolium (Torr. & A.Gray) J.W.Grimes 169 documented
Pediomelum rhombifolium (Torr. & A.Gray) Rydb. 119 documented
Pediomelum cuspidatum (Pursh) Rydb. 94 documented
Pediomelum hypogaeum (Nutt.) Rydb. 77 documented
Pediomelum latestipulatum (Shinners) Mahler 69 documented
Pediomelum californicum (S.Watson) Rydb. 58 documented
Pediomelum digitatum (Nutt.) Isely 43 documented
Pediomelum subacaule (Torr. & A.Gray) Rydb. 40 documented
Pediomelum canescens (Michx.) Rydb. 37 documented
Pediomelum cyphocalyx (A.Gray) Rydb. 25 documented
Pediomelum castoreum (S.Watson) Rydb. 10 documented
Pediomelum pentaphyllum (L.) Rydb. 9 documented
Pediomelum megalanthum (Wooton & Standl.) Rydb. 8 documented
Pediomelum reverchonii (S.Watson) Rydb. 6 documented
Pediomelum mephiticum (S.Watson) Rydb. 5 documented
Pediomelum aromaticum (Payson) W.A.Weber 0 below the evidence gate
Pediomelum humile Rydb. 0 below the evidence gate
Pediomelum palmeri (Ockendon) J.W.Grimes ex Gandhi 0 below the evidence gate
Pediomelum pariense (R.L.Welsh & N.D.Atwood) J.W.Grimes 0 below the evidence gate
Pediomelum piedmontanum J.R.Allison, M.W.Morris & A.N.Egan 0 below the evidence gate
Pediomelum verdiense S.L.Welsh & Licher 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.