Pyrola

Accepted species 43 Documented here 17 Family Ericaceae

Accepted species 43 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
Pyrola asarifolia Michx. 948 documented
Pyrola elliptica Nutt. 862 documented
Pyrola rotundifolia L. 780 documented
Pyrola americana Sweet 664 documented
Pyrola minor L. 542 documented
Pyrola chlorantha Sw. 460 documented
Pyrola picta Sm. 381 documented
Pyrola aphylla Sm. 119 documented
Pyrola dentata Sm. 84 documented
Pyrola grandiflora Radius 60 documented
Pyrola media Sw. 36 documented
Pyrola japonica Klenze ex Alef. 22 documented
Pyrola alboreticulata Hayata 9 documented
Pyrola renifolia Maxim. 8 documented
Pyrola morrisonensis (Hayata) Hayata 7 documented
Pyrola crypta Jolles 5 documented
Pyrola calliantha Andres 3 documented
Pyrola × graebneriana Seemen 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola alpina Andres 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola angustifolia (Alef.) Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola atropurpurea Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola carpatica Holub & Křísa 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola chouana Chang Y.Yang 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola corbieri H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola decorata Andres 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola elegantula Andres 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola faurieana Andres 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola forrestiana Andres 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola karakoramica Křísa 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola macrocalyx Ohwi 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola markonica Y.L.Chou & R.C.Zhou 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola mattfeldiana Andres 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola monophylla Y.L.Chou & R.C.Zhou 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola nephrophylla Andres 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola rugosa Andres 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola shanxiensis Y.L.Chou & R.C.Zhou 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola sororia Andres 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola subaphylla Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola sumatrana Andres 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola szechuanica Andres 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola tschanbaischanica Y.L.Chou & Y.L.Chang 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola virgata Raf. 0 below the evidence gate
Pyrola xinjiangensis Y.L.Chou & R.C.Zhou 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.