Petasites

Accepted species 18 Documented here 11 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 18 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
Petasites hybridus (L.) G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb. 990 documented
Petasites albus (L.) Gaertn. 749 documented
Petasites frigidus (L.) Fr. 638 documented
Petasites pyrenaicus (Loefl.) G.López 368 documented
Petasites japonicus (Siebold & Zucc.) Maxim. 251 documented
Petasites spurius Rchb.f. 191 documented
Petasites radiatus (J.F.Gmel.) Toman 160 documented
Petasites paradoxus (Retz.) Baumg. 75 documented
Petasites formosanus Kitam. 57 documented
Petasites kablikianus Tausch ex Bercht. 4 documented
Petasites tatewakianus Kitam. 3 documented
Petasites amplus Kitam. 0 below the evidence gate
Petasites fominii Bordz. 0 below the evidence gate
Petasites kamengicus Deb 0 below the evidence gate
Petasites rubellus (J.F.Gmel.) Toman 0 below the evidence gate
Petasites sibiricus (J.F.Gmel.) I.Dingwall 0 below the evidence gate
Petasites tricholobus Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Petasites versipilus Hand.-Mazz. 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.