Plumbago

Accepted species 19 Documented here 7 Family Plumbaginaceae

Accepted species 19 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
Plumbago zeylanica L. 588 documented
Plumbago auriculata Lam. 578 documented
Plumbago europaea L. 121 documented
Plumbago pulchella Boiss. 49 documented
Plumbago caerulea Kunth 24 documented
Plumbago tristis W.T.Aiton 22 documented
Plumbago indica L. 11 documented
Plumbago amplexicaulis Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Plumbago aphylla Bojer ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Plumbago ciliata Engl. ex Wilmot-Dear 0 below the evidence gate
Plumbago dawei Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Plumbago glandulicaulis Wilmot-Dear 0 below the evidence gate
Plumbago hunsbergensis van Jaarsv., Swanepoel & A.E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Plumbago ituriensis Ntore 0 below the evidence gate
Plumbago madagascariensis M.Peltier 0 below the evidence gate
Plumbago montis-elgonis Bullock 0 below the evidence gate
Plumbago pearsonii L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Plumbago stenophylla Wilmot-Dear 0 below the evidence gate
Plumbago wissii Friedrich 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.