Scabiosa

Accepted species 65 Documented here 17 Family Caprifoliaceae

Accepted species 65 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
Scabiosa columbaria L. 859 documented
Scabiosa ochroleuca L. 786 documented
Scabiosa atropurpurea L. 742 documented
Scabiosa lucida Vill. 138 documented
Scabiosa africana L. 94 documented
Scabiosa canescens Waldst. & Kit. 63 documented
Scabiosa triandra L. 58 documented
Scabiosa comosa Fisch. ex Roem. & Schult. 42 documented
Scabiosa bipinnata K.Koch 24 documented
Scabiosa lacerifolia Hayata 20 documented
Scabiosa incisa Mill. 8 documented
Scabiosa tenuis Spruner ex Boiss. 7 documented
Scabiosa tysonii L.Bolus 7 documented
Scabiosa japonica Miq. 6 documented
Scabiosa pyrenaica All. 6 documented
Scabiosa albanensis R.A.Dyer 4 documented
Scabiosa fumarioides Vis. & Pancic 3 documented
Scabiosa drakensbergensis B.L.Burtt 2 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa holosericea Bertol. 2 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa nitens Roem. & Schult. 2 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa praemontana Privalova 1 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa × lucidula Beck 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa adzharica Schchian 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa andryalifolia (Pau) Devesa 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa andryifolia (Pau) Devesa 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa angustiloba (Sond.) B.L.Burtt ex Hutch. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa arenaria Forssk. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa austroafricana Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa balcanica (Velen.) Velen. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa beauverdiana Palez. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa buekiana Eckl. & Zeyh. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa cartenniana A.Pons & Quézel 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa cephalarioides Lojac. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa cinerea Lapeyr. ex Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa colchica Steven 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa correvoniana Sommier & Levier 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa corsica (Litard.) Gamisans 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa daucoides Desf. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa eremophila Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa farinosa Coss. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa galianoi Devesa, Ortega Oliv. & J.López 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa georgica Sulak. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa imeretica Sulak. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa jezoensis Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa lachnophylla Kitag. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa libyca Alavi 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa meskhetica Schchian 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa mollissima Viv. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa owerinii Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa paphlagonica Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa parielii Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa parviflora Desf. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa semipapposa Salzm. ex DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa silenifolia Waldst. & Kit. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa solymica (Parolly, Eren & Nordt) Göktürk 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa sosnowskyi Sulak. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa taygetea Boiss. & Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa tenuisecta Jord. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa thysdrusiana Le Houér. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa transvaalensis S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa triniifolia Friv. 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa turolensis Pau 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa velenovskiana Bobrov 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa vestina Facchini ex W.D.J.Koch 0 below the evidence gate
Scabiosa webbiana D.Don 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.