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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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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

Poa cookii

Annona hypoglauca Mart.

Acer glabrum Torr.

Gurania tubulosa Cogn.

Opuntia sp.

Yucca baccata Torr.

Indet. sp.

Lonicera japonica Thunb.

Matelea sp.

Poa alpina L.

Abuta grandifolia (Mart.) Sandwith

Malanea sp.

Poa sp.

Erigeron rhizomatus Cronq.

Muhlenbergia sp.


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