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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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Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter

Jasminum multiflorum (Burm. f.) Andrews

Vigna hosei (Craib) Backer ex K. Heyne

Stigmaphyllon floribundum (DC.) C.E. Anderson

Amphilophium paniculatum (L.) Kunth

Psiguria pedata (L.) R.A. Howard

Tournefortia hirsutissima L.

Lepidaploa glabra (Willd.) H. Rob.

Celtis iguanaea (Jacq.) Sarg.

Vigna vexillata (L.) A. Rich.

Turbina corymbosa (L.) Raf.

Rhynchosia phaseoloides (Sw.) DC.

Chromolaena borinquensis (Britton) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Psiguria pedata (L.) R.A. Howard

Anechites nerium (Aubl.) Urb.

Chamissoa altissima (Jacq.) Kunth

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