Sorghum

Accepted species 20 Documented here 3 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 20 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
Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. 2,331 documented
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench 235 documented
Sorghum nitidum (Vahl) Pers. 6 documented
Sorghum × almum Parodi 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum × derzhavinii Tzvelev 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum × drummondii (Nees ex Steud.) Millsp. & Chase 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum amplum Lazarides 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum brachypodum Lazarides 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum bulbosum Lazarides 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum burmahicum Raizada 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum controversum (Steud.) Snowden 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum ecarinatum Lazarides 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum exstans Lazarides 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum grande Lazarides 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum interjectum Lazarides 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum laxiflorum F.M.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum macrospermum E.D.Garber 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum matarankense E.D.Garber & Snyder 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum propinquum (Kunth) Hitchc. 0 below the evidence gate
Sorghum virgatum (Hack.) Stapf 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.