Veratrum

Accepted species 26 Documented here 13 Family Melanthiaceae

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
Veratrum viride Aiton 1,698 documented
Veratrum californicum Durand 755 documented
Veratrum lobelianum Bernh. 513 documented
Veratrum album L. 287 documented
Veratrum nigrum L. 168 documented
Veratrum fimbriatum A.Gray 80 documented
Veratrum insolitum Jeps. 50 documented
Veratrum formosanum O.Loes. 37 documented
Veratrum oxysepalum Turcz. 33 documented
Veratrum schindleri O.Loes. 18 documented
Veratrum maackii Regel 14 documented
Veratrum dahuricum (Turcz.) O.Loes. 13 documented
Veratrum stamineum Maxim. 3 documented
Veratrum × tonussii Poldini 0 below the evidence gate
Veratrum albiflorum Tolm. 0 below the evidence gate
Veratrum anticleoides (Trautv. & C.A.Mey.) Takeda & Miyake 0 below the evidence gate
Veratrum dolichopetalum O.Loes. 0 below the evidence gate
Veratrum grandiflorum (Maxim. ex Miq.) O.Loes. 0 below the evidence gate
Veratrum longibracteatum Takeda 0 below the evidence gate
Veratrum maximum (Nakai) M.N.Tamura & N.S.Lee 0 below the evidence gate
Veratrum mengtzeanum O.Loes. 0 below the evidence gate
Veratrum micranthum F.T.Wang & Tang 0 below the evidence gate
Veratrum oblongum O.Loes. 0 below the evidence gate
Veratrum shanense W.W.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Veratrum taliense O.Loes. 0 below the evidence gate
Veratrum versicolor Nakai 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.