Samolus

Accepted species 14 Documented here 7 Family Primulaceae

Accepted species 14 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
Samolus repens (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Pers. 1,298 documented
Samolus parviflorus Raf. 507 documented
Samolus valerandi L. 285 documented
Samolus ebracteatus Kunth 283 documented
Samolus porosus Thunb. 112 documented
Samolus spathulatus (Cav.) Duby 10 documented
Samolus junceus R.Br. 3 documented
Samolus eremaeus S.W.L.Jacobs 2 below the evidence gate
Samolus vagans Greene 2 below the evidence gate
Samolus caespitosus Keighery 0 below the evidence gate
Samolus cinerascens Pax & R.Knuth 0 below the evidence gate
Samolus dichondrifolius Channell 0 below the evidence gate
Samolus latifolius Duby 0 below the evidence gate
Samolus subnudicaulis A.St.-Hil. ex Compt. 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.