Plagiobothrys

Accepted species 69 Documented here 21 Family Boraginaceae

Accepted species 69 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
Plagiobothrys nothofulvus (A.Gray) A.Gray 246 documented
Plagiobothrys scouleri (Hook. & Arn.) I.M.Johnst. 94 documented
Plagiobothrys arizonicus (A.Gray) Greene ex A.Gray 88 documented
Plagiobothrys collinus (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 42 documented
Plagiobothrys acanthocarpus (Piper) I.M.Johnst. 37 documented
Plagiobothrys figuratus (Piper) I.M.Johnst. 32 documented
Plagiobothrys tenellus (Nutt.) A.Gray 22 documented
Plagiobothrys bracteatus (Howell) I.M.Johnst. 21 documented
Plagiobothrys austiniae (Greene) I.M.Johnst. 20 documented
Plagiobothrys greenei (A.Gray) I.M.Johnst. 13 documented
Plagiobothrys canescens Benth. 11 documented
Plagiobothrys parishii I.M.Johnst. 9 documented
Plagiobothrys salsus (Brandegee) I.M.Johnst. 9 documented
Plagiobothrys fulvus (Hook. & Arn.) I.M.Johnst. 8 documented
Plagiobothrys mollis (A.Gray) I.M.Johnst. 8 documented
Plagiobothrys stipitatus I.M.Johnst. 8 documented
Plagiobothrys myosotoides Brand 7 documented
Plagiobothrys leptocladus (Greene) I.M.Johnst. 4 documented
Plagiobothrys linifolius (Lehm.) I.M.Johnst. 4 documented
Plagiobothrys scriptus (Greene) I.M.Johnst. 4 documented
Plagiobothrys strictus (Greene) I.M.Johnst. 4 documented
Plagiobothrys hystriculus (Piper) I.M.Johnst. 12 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys undulatus (Piper) I.M.Johnst. 10 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys glyptocarpus (Piper) I.M.Johnst. 2 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys orientalis (L.) I.M.Johnst. 2 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys humilis (Ruiz & Pav.) I.M.Johnst. 1 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys procumbens (Colla) Colla 1 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys reticulatus (Piper) I.M.Johnst. 1 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys armeriifolius (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys australasicus (A.DC.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys calandrinioides (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys chorisianus (Cham.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys congestus (Wedd.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys corymbosus (Ruiz & Pav.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys cusickii (Greene) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys diffusus (Greene) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys distantiflorus (Piper) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys divaricatus (Piper) Guilliams & R.B.Kelley 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys foliosus I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys germainii I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys glaber (A.Gray) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys gracilis (Ruiz & Pav.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys hirtus (Greene) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys hispidulus (Greene) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys humistratus (Greene) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys infectivus I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys kunthii (Walp.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys lamprocarpus (Piper) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys lithocaryus (Greene ex A.Gray) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys macbridei I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys mesembryanthemoides (Speg.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys mexicanus (J.F.Macbr.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys nitens (Greene) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys oppositifolius (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys orthostatus J.M.Black 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys plebeius (Cham.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys plurisepalus (F.Muell.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys polycaulis (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys pratensis (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys pringlei Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys pulchellus I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys shastensis Greene ex A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys tener (Greene) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys tenuifolius (A.Gray) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys torreyi (A.Gray) A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys trachycarpus (A.Gray) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys uliginosus (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys uncinatus J.T.Howell 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiobothrys verrucosus I.M.Johnst. 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.