Schoenocaulon

Accepted species 26 Documented here 7 Family Melanthiaceae

Accepted species 26 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
Schoenocaulon texanum Scheele 73 documented
Schoenocaulon dubium (Michx.) Small 52 documented
Schoenocaulon ghiesbreghtii Greenm. 22 documented
Schoenocaulon oaxacense (Frame) Zomlefer & Judd 11 documented
Schoenocaulon caricifolium (Schltdl.) A.Gray 8 documented
Schoenocaulon calcicola Greenm. 6 documented
Schoenocaulon tenorioi Frame 4 documented
Schoenocaulon tenuifolium (M.Martens & Galeotti) B.L.Rob. & Greenm. 3 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon officinale (Schltdl. & Cham.) A.Gray 2 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon comatum Brinker 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon conzattii Brinker 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon frameae Zomlefer & Judd 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon ignigenum Frame 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon intermedium Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon jaliscense Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon macrocarpum Brinker 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon madidorum Frame 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon megarrhizum M.E.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon mortonii Brinker 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon obtusum Brinker 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon pellucidum Frame 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon plumosum Frame 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon pringlei Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon rzedowskii Frame 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon tenue Brinker 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenocaulon tigrense Frame 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.