Sagina

Accepted species 36 Documented here 12 Family Caryophyllaceae

Accepted species 36 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
Sagina procumbens L. 1,735 documented
Sagina japonica (Sw. ex Steud.) Ohwi 131 documented
Sagina nodosa (L.) Fenzl 76 documented
Sagina apetala Ard. 74 documented
Sagina decumbens (Elliott) Torr. & A.Gray 57 documented
Sagina saginoides (L.) H.Karst. 52 documented
Sagina micropetala Rauschert 21 documented
Sagina maritima Don 16 documented
Sagina alexandrae Iamonico 13 documented
Sagina maxima A.Gray 9 documented
Sagina merinoi Pau ex Merino 6 documented
Sagina glabra (Willd.) Fenzl 4 documented
Sagina pilifera (DC.) Fenzl 2 below the evidence gate
Sagina × normaniana Lagerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina abyssinica Hochst. ex A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina afroalpina Hedberg 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina belonophylla Mattf. 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina brachysepala Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina caespitosa Lange 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina chilensis Naudin ex Gay 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina diemensis L.G.Adams 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina diffusa (Hook.f.) Timaná 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina donatioides F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina hookeri Timaná 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina humifusa (Cambess.) Fenzl ex Rohrb. 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina libanotica Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina monticola Merr. & L.M.Perry 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina namadgi L.G.Adams 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina nilagirica A.Subram. & Maya 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina nivalis (Lindblom) Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina oxysepala Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina papuana Warb. 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina revelieri Jord. & Fourr. 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina rupestris R.T.A.Schouten ex K.Larsen 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina sabuletorum J.Gay ex Lange 0 below the evidence gate
Sagina stridii Kit Tan, Zarkos & V. Christodoulou 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.