Sonchus

Accepted species 110 Documented here 30 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 110 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
Sonchus oleraceus L. 7,411 documented
Sonchus asper (L.) Hill 4,010 documented
Sonchus arvensis L. 2,061 documented
Sonchus tenerrimus L. 377 documented
Sonchus palustris L. 247 documented
Sonchus pinnatus Aiton 141 documented
Sonchus novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Hook.f. 120 documented
Sonchus novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) B.D.Jacks. 120 documented
Sonchus grandifolius Kirk 106 documented
Sonchus kirkii Hamlin 73 documented
Sonchus fruticosus L.f. 63 documented
Sonchus acaulis Dum.Cours. 55 documented
Sonchus megalocarpus (Hook.f.) J.M.Black 50 documented
Sonchus latifolius (Lowe) R.Jardim & M.Seq. 38 documented
Sonchus bulbosus (L.) N.Kilian & Greuter 29 documented
Sonchus congestus Willd. 19 documented
Sonchus hierrensis (Pit.) Boulos 19 documented
Sonchus leptocephalus Cass. 17 documented
Sonchus wightianus DC. 11 documented
Sonchus capillaris Svent. 9 documented
Sonchus wilmsii R.E.Fr. 9 documented
Sonchus dregeanus DC. 8 documented
Sonchus canariensis (Sch.Bip.) Boulos 7 documented
Sonchus palmensis (Webb) Boulos 7 documented
Sonchus ustulatus Lowe 7 documented
Sonchus radicatus Aiton 6 documented
Sonchus regius (Skottsb.) S.C.Kim & Mejías 6 documented
Sonchus daltonii Webb 5 documented
Sonchus pinnatifidus Cav. 4 documented
Sonchus parathalassius J.G.Costa ex R.Jardim & M.Seq. 3 documented
Sonchus brassicifolius S.C.Kim & Mejías 1 below the evidence gate
Sonchus integrifolius Harv. 1 below the evidence gate
Sonchus neriifolius (Bertero ex Decne.) S.C.Kim & Mejías 1 below the evidence gate
Sonchus × haussknechtii Brügger 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus × jacquiniocephalus Svent. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus × maynari Svent. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus × novocastellanus Cirujano 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus × prudhommei Bouchard 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus × rokosensis Sutorý 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus × rotundilobus Popov ex Kovalevsk. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus afromontanus R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus agrestis Swartz 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus andrenarum Cockerell 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus aquatilis Pourr. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus arboreus (Willd.) DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus berteroanus (Decne.) S.C.Kim & Mejías 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus bipontini Asch. ex Oliv. & Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus bipontini Asch. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus bornmuelleri Pit. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus boulosii Chamboul., Mejías & J.F.Léger 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus bourgeaui Sch.Bip. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus brachylobus Webb 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus brachylobus Sch.Bip. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus brachyotus DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus briquetianus Gand. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus bupleuroides (Font Quer) N.Kilian & Greuter 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus camporum (R.E.Fr.) Boulos ex C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus crassifolius Pourr. ex Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus crepioides (Poir.) Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus erzincanicus V.A.Matthews 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus esperanzae N.Kilian & Greuter 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus fauces-orci Knoche 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus friesii Boulos 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus gandogeri Pit. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus gibbosus Savi 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus gigas Boulos 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus gomerensis Boulos 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus gummifer Link 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus heterophyllus (Boulos) U.Reifenb. & A.Reifenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus hothae C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus hydrophilus Boulos 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus jainii Chandrab., V.Chandras. & N.C.Nair 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus laceratus (Phil.) S.C.Kim & Mejías 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus lidii Boulos 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus lobatiflorus S.C.Kim & Mejías 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus luxurians (R.E.Fr.) C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus macrocarpus Boulos & C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus malayanus Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus marginatus (Bertero ex Decne.) S.C.Kim & Mejías 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus maritimus L. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus masguindalii Pau & Font Quer 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus mauritanicus Boiss. & Reut. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus megalocarpa (Hook.f.) J.M.Black 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus melanolepis Fresen. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus micranthus (Bertero ex Decne.) S.C.Kim & Mejías 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus microcarpus (Boulos) U.Reifenb. & A.Reifenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus microcephalus Mejías 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus monanthus Koidz. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus nanus Sond. ex Harv. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus obtusilobus R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus ortunoi Svent. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus pendulus (Webb) Sennikov 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus phoeniciformis S.C.Kim & Mejías 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus pitardii Boulos 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus platylepis Webb 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus pruinatus (Johow) S.C.Kim & Mejías 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus pustulatus Willk. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus regis-jubae Pit. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus saudensis Boulos 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus schweinfurthii Oliv. & Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus sinuatus S.C.Kim & Mejías 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus sosnowskyi Schchian 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus splendens S.C.Kim & Mejías 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus stenophyllus R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus suberosus Zohary & P.H.Davis 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus sventenii U.Reifenb. & A.Reifenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus tectifolius Svent. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus tuberifer Svent. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus webbii Sch.Bip. 0 below the evidence gate
Sonchus wildpretii U.Reifenb. & A.Reifenb. 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.