Symphyotrichum

Accepted species 103 Documented here 68 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 103 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
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (L.) G.L.Nesom 2,200 documented
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve 1,670 documented
Symphyotrichum cordifolium (L.) G.L.Nesom 1,030 documented
Symphyotrichum ericoides (L.) G.L.Nesom 821 documented
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum (Willd.) G.L.Nesom 805 documented
Symphyotrichum pilosum (Willd.) G.L.Nesom 786 documented
Symphyotrichum puniceum (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve 716 documented
Symphyotrichum laeve (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve 562 documented
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii (L.) G.L.Nesom 442 documented
Symphyotrichum patens (Aiton) G.L.Nesom 417 documented
Symphyotrichum chilense (Nees) G.L.Nesom 274 documented
Symphyotrichum ciliolatum (Lindl.) Á.Löve & D.Löve 239 documented
Symphyotrichum drummondii (Lindl.) G.L.Nesom 234 documented
Symphyotrichum urophyllum (Lindl.) G.L.Nesom 202 documented
Symphyotrichum undulatum (L.) G.L.Nesom 194 documented
Symphyotrichum prenanthoides (Muhl. ex Willd.) G.L.Nesom 190 documented
Symphyotrichum dumosum (L.) G.L.Nesom 187 documented
Symphyotrichum concolor (L.) G.L.Nesom 179 documented
Symphyotrichum adnatum (Nutt.) G.L.Nesom 164 documented
Symphyotrichum shortii (Lindl.) G.L.Nesom 131 documented
Symphyotrichum pratense (Raf.) G.L.Nesom 123 documented
Symphyotrichum sericeum (Vent.) G.L.Nesom 117 documented
Symphyotrichum boreale (Torr. & A.Gray) Á.Löve & D.Löve 105 documented
Symphyotrichum firmum (Nees) G.L.Nesom 104 documented
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium (Nutt.) G.L.Nesom 96 documented
Symphyotrichum walteri (Alexander) G.L.Nesom 89 documented
Symphyotrichum simmondsii (Small) G.L.Nesom 82 documented
Symphyotrichum racemosum (Elliott) G.L.Nesom 80 documented
Symphyotrichum praealtum (Poir.) G.L.Nesom 78 documented
Symphyotrichum retroflexum (Lindl.) G.L.Nesom 72 documented
Symphyotrichum grandiflorum (L.) G.L.Nesom 68 documented
Symphyotrichum tenuifolium (L.) G.L.Nesom 67 documented
Symphyotrichum ontarionis (Wiegand) G.L.Nesom 60 documented
Symphyotrichum falcatum (Lindl.) G.L.Nesom 47 documented
Symphyotrichum ciliatum (Ledeb.) G.L.Nesom 43 documented
Symphyotrichum eulae (Shinners) G.L.Nesom 42 documented
Symphyotrichum frondosum (Nutt.) G.L.Nesom 41 documented
Symphyotrichum depauperatum (Fernald) G.L.Nesom 40 documented
Symphyotrichum anomalum (Engelm.) G.L.Nesom 37 documented
Symphyotrichum subspicatum (Nees) G.L.Nesom 36 documented
Symphyotrichum elliottii (Torr. & A.Gray) G.L.Nesom 31 documented
Symphyotrichum foliaceum (Lindl. ex DC.) G.L.Nesom 28 documented
Symphyotrichum georgianum (Alexander) G.L.Nesom 28 documented
Symphyotrichum fontinale (Alexander) G.L.Nesom 26 documented
Symphyotrichum robynsianum (J.Rousseau) Brouillet & Labrecque 25 documented
Symphyotrichum ascendens (Lindl.) G.L.Nesom 24 documented
Symphyotrichum spathulatum (Lindl.) G.L.Nesom 18 documented
Symphyotrichum defoliatum (Parish) G.L.Nesom 17 documented
Symphyotrichum plumosum (Small) Semple 15 documented
Symphyotrichum campestre (Nutt.) G.L.Nesom 14 documented
Symphyotrichum turbinellum (Lindl.) G.L.Nesom 13 documented
Symphyotrichum anticostense (Fernald) G.L.Nesom 12 documented
Symphyotrichum carnerosanum (S.Watson) G.L.Nesom 12 documented
Symphyotrichum bullatum (Klatt) G.L.Nesom 11 documented
Symphyotrichum eatonii (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom 10 documented
Symphyotrichum hallii (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom 10 documented
Symphyotrichum phlogifolium (Muhl. ex Willd.) G.L.Nesom 10 documented
Symphyotrichum fendleri (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom 9 documented
Symphyotrichum vahlii (Gaudich.) G.L.Nesom 9 documented
Symphyotrichum regnellii (Baker) G.L.Nesom 8 documented
Symphyotrichum trilineatum (Sch.Bip. ex Klatt) G.L.Nesom 8 documented
Symphyotrichum chapmanii (Torr. & A.Gray) Semple & Brouillet 7 documented
Symphyotrichum kralii G.L.Nesom 7 documented
Symphyotrichum porteri (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom 6 documented
Symphyotrichum glabrifolium (DC.) G.L.Nesom 5 documented
Symphyotrichum nahanniense (Cody) Semple 4 documented
Symphyotrichum welshii (Cronquist) G.L.Nesom 4 documented
Symphyotrichum lentum (Greene) G.L.Nesom 3 documented
Symphyotrichum potosinum (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom 4 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum oolentangiense (Riddell) G.L.Nesom 2 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum greatae (Parish) G.L.Nesom 1 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum hendersonii (Fernald) G.L.Nesom 1 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum parviceps (E.S.Burgess) G.L.Nesom 1 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum × amethystinum (Nutt.) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum × batesii (Rydb.) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum × columbianum (Piper) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum × finkii (Rydb.) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum × gravesii (E.S.Burgess) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum × longulum (E.Sheld.) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum × salignum (Willd.) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum × schistosum (E.S.Steele) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum × tardiflorum (L.) Greuter, M.V.Agab. & Wagenitz 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum × versicolor (Willd.) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum × woldenii (Rydb.) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum burgessii (Britton) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum cusickii (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum graminifolium (Spreng.) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum hintonii (G.L.Nesom) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum jessicae (Piper) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum laurentianum (Fernald) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum lucayanum (Britton) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum martii (Baker) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum molle (Rydb.) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum parviflorum (Nees) Greuter 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum patagonicum (Cabrera) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum patulum (Lam.) Karlsson 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum peteroanum (Phil.) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum priceae (Britton) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum pygmaeum (Lindl.) Brouillet & Selliah 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum subgeminatum (Fernald) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum subulatus Michx. 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum tradescantii (L.) G.L.Nesom 0 below the evidence gate
Symphyotrichum yukonense (Cronquist) G.L.Nesom 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.