Zinnia

Accepted species 24 Documented here 11 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 24 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
Zinnia peruviana (L.) L. 525 documented
Zinnia grandiflora Nutt. 365 documented
Zinnia acerosa (DC.) A.Gray 290 documented
Zinnia elegans Jacq. 163 documented
Zinnia elegans L. 163 documented
Zinnia maritima Kunth 19 documented
Zinnia juniperifolia A.Gray 17 documented
Zinnia zinnioides (Kunth) Olorode & A.M.Torres 17 documented
Zinnia bicolor Hemsl. 11 documented
Zinnia angustifolia Kunth 6 documented
Zinnia haageana Regel 4 documented
Zinnia anomala A.Gray 2 below the evidence gate
Zinnia americana (Mill.) Olorode & A.M.Torres 0 below the evidence gate
Zinnia citrea A.M.Torres 0 below the evidence gate
Zinnia flavicoma (DC.) Olorode & A.M.Torres 0 below the evidence gate
Zinnia linearis Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Zinnia microglossa (DC.) McVaugh 0 below the evidence gate
Zinnia oligantha I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Zinnia palmeri A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Zinnia pauciflora Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Zinnia purpusii Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Zinnia tenuis (S.Watson) Strother 0 below the evidence gate
Zinnia venusta (A.M.Torres) Olorode & A.M.Torres 0 below the evidence gate
Zinnia violacea Cav. 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.