Pieris

Accepted species 23 Documented here 4 Family Ericaceae

Accepted species 23 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
Pieris japonica (Thunb.) D.Don ex G.Don 81 documented
Pieris floribunda (Pursh) Benth. & Hook.f. 43 documented
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC. 34 documented
Pieris formosa (Wall.) D.Don 13 documented
Pieris amamioshimensis Setoguchi & Y.Maeda 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris coreana H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris cubensis (Griseb.) Small 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris fauriei H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris formosana Komatsu 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris griffithiana Hook.f. ex C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris huana W.P.Fang 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris huiana W.P.Fang 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris koidzumiana Ohwi 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris labordei H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris langbianensis A.Chev. ex Dop 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris longicornu H.Lév. & Vaniot 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris morrisonensis Hayata 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris nana (Maxim.) Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris pilosa Komatsu 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris popowii Palib. 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris shanica W.W.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris sinensis Sweet 0 below the evidence gate
Pieris swinhoei Hemsl. 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.