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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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Corchorus siliquosus L.

Ayenia insulicola Cristóbal

Luehea sp.

Malachra alceifolia Jacq.

Melochia pyramidata L.

Abutilon viscosum (L.) Dorr

Talipariti tiliaceum (L.) Fryxell

Abutilon rufinerve A. St.-Hil.

Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench

Hibiscus moscheutos L.

Apeiba membranacea Spruce ex Benth.

Wissadula hernandioides (L'Hér.) Garcke

Pavonia spinifex (L.) Cav.

Hibiscus trilobus Aubl.

Pavonia spinifex (L.) Cav.

Fioria vitifolia (L.) Mattei

Herissantia crispa (L.) Brizicky

Urena lobata L.

Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.

Pavonia paludicola Nicolson ex Fryxell

Apeiba schomburgkii Szyszyl.

Sphaeralcea incana Torr.

Byttneria pescapriifolia Britton

Byttneria benensis Britton

Trichospermum mexicanum (DC.) Baill.

Byttneria fulva Poepp.

Byttneria sp.

Byttneria aculeata (Jacq.) Jacq.

Byttneria aculeata (Jacq.) Jacq.


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