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Plant Collections

Botantists at the National Museum of Natural History work to discover the diversity of plant life in the water and on the land and understand the evolutionary origin of this diversity. The plant collections of the National Museum of Natural History's Department of Botany are among the most important worldwide. This vast and intensely managed collection of over 5 million specimens represents a premier national and international resource. Here you can explore and download free to use plant images from the museum. Horticulturalists at Smithsonian Gardens maintain living plant collections with thousands of unique items, including thousands of orchids.


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Cryptostegia madagascariensis Bojer ex Decne.

Turbina sp.

Toxicodendron sp.

Psittacanthus acevedoi Kuijt

Heteropsis sp.

Monstera spruceana (Schott) Engl.

Lasiacis sp.

Pinochia corymbosa (Jacq.) M.E. Endress & B.F. Hansen

Selaginella willdenowii (Desv. ex Poir.) Baker

Dolichandra unguis-cati (L.) L.G. Lohmann

Merremia tuberosa (L.) Rendle

Hanburia sp.

Allamanda cathartica L.

Pachyrhizus erosus (L.) Urb.

Manettia reclinata L.

Indet. sp.

Yucca schottii Engelm.

Isocoma sp.

Acer negundo L.

Cuscuta sp.

Asclepias incarnata L.

Erigeron rhizomatus Cronq.

Indet. sp.

Thyrsacanthus ramosissimus Moric.

Indet. sp.

Iris missouriensis Nutt.

Clusia rosea Jacq.

Paullinia carpopodea Cambess.

Mikania sp.

Holmskioldia sanguinea Retz.

Neobuchia paulinae Urb.

Quercus turbinella Greene

Cayaponia sp.

Bromus hordeaceus L.

Tabebuia heterophylla (DC.) Britton


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