Sorghastrum

Accepted species 22 Documented here 5 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 22 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
Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash 1,844 documented
Sorghastrum secundum (Elliott) Nash 139 documented
Sorghastrum elliottii (C.Mohr) Nash 30 documented
Sorghastrum setosum (Griseb.) Hitchc. 10 documented
Sorghastrum pellitum (Hack.) Parodi 3 documented
Sorghastrum balansae (Hack.) Dávila 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum brunneum Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum canescens (Hack.) Pilg. 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum chasae Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum chaseae Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum contractum (Hack.) M.Kuhlm. & Kuhn 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum crassum Renvoize 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum fuscescens (Pilg.) Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum incompletum (J.Presl) Nash 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum minarum (Nees) Hitchc. 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum nudipes Nash 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum pogonostachyum (Stapf) Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum pohlianum Dávila, L.I.Cabrera & R.Lira 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum scaberrimum (Nees) Herter 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum stipoides (Kunth) Nash 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum tisserantii Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghastrum viride Swallen 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.