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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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Poa planifolia Kuntze

Pseudogynoxys sp.

Senna bicapsularis (L.) Roxb.

Jacquemontia polyantha (Schltdl. & Cham.) Hallier f.

Melanthera sp.

Jacquemontia polyantha (Schltdl. & Cham.) Hallier f.

Pisonia aculeata L.

Pseudogynoxys sp.

Ampelopsis sp.

Baccharis trinervis (Lam.) Pers.

Turbina corymbosa (L.) Raf.

Turbina corymbosa (L.) Raf.

Pisonia aculeata L.

Machaerium kegelii Meisn.

Heteropterys brachiata (L.) DC.

Melothria sp.

Centrosema sp.

Dalbergia glabra (Mill.) Standl.

Randia cinerea (Fernald) Standl.

Byttneria aculeata (Jacq.) Jacq.

Serjania cambessediana Schltdl. & Cham.

Byttneria aculeata (Jacq.) Jacq.

Serjania fuscopunctata Radlk.

Serjania fuscopunctata Radlk.

Serjania fuscopunctata Radlk.

Mikania cordifolia (L. f.) Willd.

Mikania cordifolia (L. f.) Willd.

Paullinia clavigera Schltdl.

Passiflora biflora Lam.

Semialarium mexicanum (Miers) Mennega

Strychnos panamensis Seem.

Rourea glabra Kunth

Serjania mexicana (L.) Willd.

Semialarium mexicanum (Miers) Mennega

Combretum decandrum Jacq.


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