Symphytum

Accepted species 36 Documented here 11 Family Boraginaceae

Accepted species 36 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
Symphytum officinale L. 2,158 documented
Symphytum tuberosum L. 455 documented
Symphytum caucasicum M.Bieb. 331 documented
Symphytum orientale L. 277 documented
Symphytum grandiflorum DC. 85 documented
Symphytum asperum Lepech. 73 documented
Symphytum bulbosum K.F.Schimp. 66 documented
Symphytum tauricum Willd. 66 documented
Symphytum cordatum Willd. 12 documented
Symphytum creticum (Willd.) Runemark 11 documented
Symphytum ottomanum Friv. 3 documented
Symphytum brachycalyx Boiss. 1 below the evidence gate
Symphytum × bicknellii Buckn. 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum × ferrariense C.Massal. 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum × mosquense S.R.Majorov & D.D.Sokoloff 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum × ullepitschii Wettst. 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum × uplandicum Nyman 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum aintabicum Hub.-Mor. & Wickens 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum anatolicum Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum bornmuelleri Buckn. 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum carpaticum Yu.M.Frolov 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum circinale Runemark 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum davisii Wickens 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum ferrariense Massal. 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum gussonei F.W.Schultz 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum hajastanum Gvin. 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum ibericum Steven 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum ibiricum Steven 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum kurdicum Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum longisetum Hub.-Mor. & Wickens 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum podcumicum Yu.M.Frolov 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum pseudobulbosum Azn. 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum savvalense Kurtto 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum sylvaticum Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum uplandicum Nyman 0 below the evidence gate
Symphytum wettsteinii Sennholz 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.