Philadelphus

Accepted species 45 Documented here 10 Family Hydrangeaceae

Accepted species 45 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
Philadelphus lewisii Pursh 522 documented
Philadelphus coronarius L. 193 documented
Philadelphus microphyllus A.Gray 81 documented
Philadelphus tenuifolius Maxim. & Rupr. 43 documented
Philadelphus inodorus L. 33 documented
Philadelphus pubescens Loisel. 30 documented
Philadelphus hirsutus Nutt. 21 documented
Philadelphus texensis S.Y.Hu 15 documented
Philadelphus mexicanus Schltdl. 9 documented
Philadelphus tomentosus Wall. ex G.Don 7 documented
Philadelphus affinis Schltdl. 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus asperifolius Körn. 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus brachybotrys (Koehne) Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus calcicola S.Y.Hu 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus calvescens (Rehder) S.M.Hwang 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus caudatus S.M.Hwang 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus coulteri S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus dasycalyx (Rehder) S.Y.Hu 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus delavayi L.Henry 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus henryi Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus incanus Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus kansuensis (Rehder) S.Y.Hu 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus karwinskyanus Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus kunmingensis S.M.Hwang 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus laxiflorus Rehder 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus lushuiensis T.C.Ku & S.M.Hwang 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus maculatus (C.L.Hitchc.) S.Y.Hu 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus mearnsii W.H.Evans ex Rydb. 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus myrtoides Bertol. 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus palmeri Rydb. 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus pekinensis Rupr. 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus pringlei S.Y.Hu 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus pueblanus S.Y.Hu 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus purpurascens (Koehne) Rehder 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus reevesianus S.Y.Hu 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus sargentianus S.Y.Hu 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus satsumi Siebold ex Lindl. & Paxton 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus schrenkii Rupr. 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus sericanthus Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus serpyllifolius A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus subcanus Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus tetragonus S.M.Hwang 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus tsianschanensis F.T.Wang & S.X.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus yangjiaensis Y.T.Zhao & H.Xie 0 below the evidence gate
Philadelphus zhejiangensis S.M.Hwang 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.