Thapsia

Accepted species 20 Documented here 11 Family Apiaceae

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
Thapsia villosa L. 113 documented
Thapsia garganica L. 108 documented
Thapsia minor Hoffmanns. & Link 25 documented
Thapsia transtagana Brot. 22 documented
Thapsia asclepium L. 13 documented
Thapsia foetida L. 10 documented
Thapsia tenuifolia Lag. 7 documented
Thapsia gummifera (Desf.) Spreng. 6 documented
Thapsia thapsioides (Desf.) Simonsen, Rønsted, Weitzel & Spalik 4 documented
Thapsia meoides Guss. 3 documented
Thapsia pelagica Brullo, Guglielmo, Pasta, Pavone & Salmeri 3 documented
Thapsia nestleri (Soy.-Will.) Wojew., Banasiak, Reduron & Spalik 2 below the evidence gate
Thapsia cinerea A.Pujadas 0 below the evidence gate
Thapsia eliasii (Sennen & Pau) Wojew., Banasiak, Reduron & Spalik 0 below the evidence gate
Thapsia gymnesica Rosselló & A.Pujadas 0 below the evidence gate
Thapsia maxima Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Thapsia nitida Lacaita 0 below the evidence gate
Thapsia platycarpa Pomel 0 below the evidence gate
Thapsia scabra (Cav.) Simonsen, Rønsted, Weitzel & Spalik 0 below the evidence gate
Thapsia smittii Simonsen, Rønsted, Weitzel & Spalik 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.