Phalaris

Accepted species 20 Documented here 9 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 20 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
Phalaris arundinacea L. 2,280 documented
Phalaris aquatica L. 365 documented
Phalaris caroliniana Walter 133 documented
Phalaris canariensis L. 81 documented
Phalaris minor Retz. 45 documented
Phalaris paradoxa L. 19 documented
Phalaris coerulescens Desf. 7 documented
Phalaris angusta Nees ex Trin. 6 documented
Phalaris californica Hook. & Arn. 5 documented
Phalaris lemmonii Vasey 2 below the evidence gate
Phalaris × daviesii S.T.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Phalaris amethystina Trin. 0 below the evidence gate
Phalaris brachystachys Link 0 below the evidence gate
Phalaris lindigii Baldini 0 below the evidence gate
Phalaris maderensis (Menezes) Menezes 0 below the evidence gate
Phalaris peruviana H.Scholz & Gutte 0 below the evidence gate
Phalaris platensis Henrard ex Wacht. 0 below the evidence gate
Phalaris primaeva (C.Brues & B.Brues) Beetle 0 below the evidence gate
Phalaris truncata Guss. 0 below the evidence gate
Phalaris truncata Guss. ex Bertol. 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.