Schoenoplectus

Accepted species 24 Documented here 14 Family Cyperaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani (C.C.Gmel.) Palla 635 documented
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla 602 documented
Schoenoplectus lacustris (L.) Palla 249 documented
Schoenoplectus californicus (C.A.Mey.) Soják 247 documented
Schoenoplectus acutus (Muhl. ex Bigelow) Á.Löve & D.Löve 170 documented
Schoenoplectus americanus (Pers.) Volkart 118 documented
Schoenoplectus scirpoides (Schrad.) Browning 37 documented
Schoenoplectus torreyi (Olney) Palla 33 documented
Schoenoplectus subterminalis (Torr.) Soják 23 documented
Schoenoplectus subulatus (Vahl) Lye 17 documented
Schoenoplectus etuberculatus (Steud.) Soják 15 documented
Schoenoplectus heterochaetus (Chase) Soják 14 documented
Schoenoplectus triqueter (L.) Palla 10 documented
Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla 4 documented
Schoenoplectus × carinatus (Sm.) Palla 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenoplectus × contortus (Eames) S.G.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenoplectus × flevensis (D.Bakker) Lansdown & Rumsey 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenoplectus × kuekenthalianus (Junge) D.H.Kent 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenoplectus × oblongus (T.Koyama) Soják 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenoplectus × steinmetzii (Fernald) S.G.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenoplectus deltarum (Schuyler) Soják 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenoplectus ehrenbergii (Boeckeler) Soják 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenoplectus halophilus Papch. & Laktionov 0 below the evidence gate
Schoenoplectus nipponicus (Makino) Soják 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.