Spergularia

Accepted species 53 Documented here 15 Family Caryophyllaceae

Accepted species 53 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
Spergularia rubra J.Presl & C.Presl 911 documented
Spergularia marina (L.) Besser 401 documented
Spergularia media (L.) C.Presl 287 documented
Spergularia macrotheca (Hornem. ex Cham. & Schltdl.) Heynh. 86 documented
Spergularia bocconei (Scheele) Graebn. 44 documented
Spergularia villosa (Pers.) Cambess. 28 documented
Spergularia rupicola Lebel ex Le Jol. 20 documented
Spergularia purpurea (Pers.) G.Don 18 documented
Spergularia canadensis (Pers.) G.Don 12 documented
Spergularia fimbriata Boiss. & Reut. 8 documented
Spergularia flaccida (Madden) I.M.Turner 6 documented
Spergularia arbuscula (Gay) I.M.Johnst. 4 documented
Spergularia pazensis (Rusby) R.Rossbach 4 documented
Spergularia depauperata (Naudin) Rohrb. 3 documented
Spergularia ramosa Cambess. 3 documented
Spergularia rupestris Cambess. 2 below the evidence gate
Spergularia aberrans I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia andina Rohrb. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia atrosperma R.Rossbach 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia australis (Samp.) Ratter 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia azorica Lebel 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia bracteata (B.L.Rob.) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia capillacea (Kindb.) Willk. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia cerviana G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia collina I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia confertiflora Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia congestifolia I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia cremnophila I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia denticulata Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia diandra (Guss.) Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia echinosperma (Celak.) Asch. & Graebn. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia fasiculata Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia floribunda (Gay) Rohrb. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia grandis (Pers.) Cambess. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia hanoverensis E.Simon ex M.Á.Alonso, M.B.Crespo, Mart.-Azorín & Mucina 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia heldreichii Foucaud ex E.Simon & Monnier 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia lycia Monnier & Quézel 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia macrorrhiza (Req. ex Loisel.) Heynh. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia manicata (Skottsb.) Kool & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia massafuerana Skottsb. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia microsperma (Kindb.) Vved. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia nicaeensis Sarato ex Burnat 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia pissisii (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia platensis (Cambess.) Fenzl 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia pycnantha R.Rossbach 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia pycnorrhiza Foucaud ex Batt. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia segetalis (L.) G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia sparsiflora A.Nelson 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia sperguloides (Lehm.) Heynh. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia spruceana R.Rossbach 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia squarrosa Muschl. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia stenocarpa (Phil.) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Spergularia tangerina P.Monnier 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.