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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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Heteropsis sp.

Monstera spruceana (Schott) Engl.

Lasiacis sp.

Yucca schottii Engelm.

Iris missouriensis Nutt.

Bromus hordeaceus L.

Poa cookii

Yucca baccata Torr.

Poa alpina L.

Poa sp.

Muhlenbergia sp.

Poa cookii

Caryota sp.

Poa sp.

Hordeum jubatum L.

Poa compressa L.

Lolium perenne L.

Philodendron sp.

Poa tennantiana

Heliconia hirsuta 'Roberto Burle-Marx'

Heliconia fugax L. Andersson

Festuca sp.

Sagittaria latifolia Willd.

Poa urssulensis Trin.

Aniselytron treutleri (Kuntze) Soják

Dichelachne micrantha (Cav.) Domin

Airopsis globosa

Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr.

Triticum sp.

Poa diaphora subsp. diaphora

Poa billardierei (Spreng.) St.-Yves

Alopecurus pratensis L.

Dactylis glomerata L.

Molineriella laevis (Brot.) Rouy

Echinochloa sp.


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