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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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Thunbergia fragrans Roxb.

Metastelma lineare Bello

Hippocratea volubilis L.

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

Senegalia westiana (DC.) Britton & Rose

Vitis tiliifolia Humb. & Bonpl. ex Schult.

Camonea umbellata (L.) Simoes & Staples

Ibatia maritima (Jacq.) Decne.

Cayaponia americana (Lam.) Cogn.

Doyerea emetocathartica Grousordy

Ardisia obovata Desv. ex Ham.

Chionanthus compactus Sw.

Serjania diversifolia (Jacq.) Radlk.

Paullinia pinnata L.

Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hallier f.

Reynosia guama Urb.

Zanthoxylum martinicense (Lam.) DC.

Serjania lucida Schum.

Annona squamosa L.

Asclepias curassavica L.

Amphilophium lactiflorum (Vahl) L.G. Lohmann

Centrosema virginianum (L.) Benth.

Opuntia dillenii (Ker Gawl.) Haw.

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

Jasminum fluminense Vell.

Passiflora foetida L.

Thunbergia fragrans Roxb.

Vitis tiliifolia Humb. & Bonpl. ex Schult.

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

Passiflora biflora Lam.

Lepidaploa borinquensis (Urb.) H. Rob.

Cucumis anguria L.

Cucumis melo L.

Ipomoea triloba L.

Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.


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