Townsendia

Accepted species 26 Documented here 14 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 26 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
Townsendia hookeri Beaman 169 documented
Townsendia exscapa (Richardson) Porter 84 documented
Townsendia incana Nutt. 80 documented
Townsendia grandiflora Nutt. 51 documented
Townsendia scapigera D.C.Eaton 32 documented
Townsendia parryi Eaton 30 documented
Townsendia condensata Parry 23 documented
Townsendia leptotes (A.Gray) Osterh. 9 documented
Townsendia annua Beaman 8 documented
Townsendia formosa Greene 7 documented
Townsendia montana M.E.Jones 7 documented
Townsendia texensis Larsen 7 documented
Townsendia fendleri A.Gray 6 documented
Townsendia jonesii (Beaman) Reveal 4 documented
Townsendia mexicana A.Gray 2 below the evidence gate
Townsendia minima Eastw. 2 below the evidence gate
Townsendia eximia A.Gray 1 below the evidence gate
Townsendia aprica S.L.Welsh & Reveal 0 below the evidence gate
Townsendia florifer (Hook.) A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Townsendia glabella A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Townsendia lepotes Osterh. 0 below the evidence gate
Townsendia mensana M.E.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Townsendia microcephala Dorn 0 below the evidence gate
Townsendia rothrockii A.Gray ex Rothrock. 0 below the evidence gate
Townsendia smithii L.M.Shultz & A.H.Holmgren 0 below the evidence gate
Townsendia strigosa Nutt. 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.