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Millennium Seed Bank Project
List of Texas species that were collected as part of the Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP). MSBP is a global conservation program to collect and store the seeds of 10% of the world’s drylands flora (24,000 species) by 2010. Click here to learn more about MSBP.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chasmanthium laxum | Slender woodoats Slender Chasmanthium | |
| Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland goldenaster Maryland golden-aster | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Chaerophyllum tainturieri | Hairyfruit chervil Southern chervil | |
| Chloris verticillata | Tumble windmill grass Windmillgrass | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White fringetree Fringe tree Grancy Graybeard | |
| Citharexylum berlandieri | Berlandier's fiddlewood Berlandier fiddlewood Fiddlewood | |
| Cirsium horridulum | Yellow thistle | |
| Cirsium texanum | Texas thistle | |
| Cissus trifoliata | Cow-itch vine Sorrelvine Grape ivy Arizona grape ivy Possum grape | |
| Clematis drummondii | Drummond's clematis Old man’s beard Texas virgin’s bower Goat’s beard | |
| Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica swamp sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
| Clematis pitcheri | Purple clematis Purple leatherflower Leatherflower Bluebill | |
| Clematis texensis | Scarlet clematis Scarlet leatherflower Texas clematis | |
| Cordia boissieri | Mexican olive Anacahuita Texas wild olive Anacahuite | |
| Cocculus carolinus | Carolina snailseed Carolina coralbead Carolina moonseed Red berried moonseed Carolina red berried moonseed | |
| Conyza canadensis | Canadian horseweed Horseweed | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Corydalis curvisiliqua ssp. curvisiliqua | Curvepod fumewort | |
| Coelorachis cylindrica | Cylinder jointtail grass Carolina Joint-tail | |
| Commelina dianthifolia | Bird-bill dayflower Birdbill dayflower | |
| Convolvulus equitans | Bindweed Texas bindweed | |
| Commelina erecta | Whitemouth dayflower Widow's tears Day flower White-mouth dayflower | |
| Condalia hookeri var. hookeri | Brazilian bluewood | |
| Cosmos parviflorus | Southwest cosmos Southwestern cosmos | |
| Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country rain lily Prairie lily Rain lily | |
| Colubrina texensis | Hog-plum Texan hogplum Texas colubrina Texas snakewood | |
| Coreopsis wrightii | Rock tickseed Golden-wave | |
| Croton alabamensis var. texensis | Texabama croton Texas Alabama croton | |
| Croton monanthogynus | Prairie tea One-seed Croton | |
| Cryptantha oblata | Rough cryptantha | |
| Croton punctatus | Gulf croton | |
| Crataegus spathulata | Littlehip hawthorn Pasture haw | |
| Crataegus tracyi | Mountain Hawthorn Tracy Hawthorn Tracy's hawthorn | |
| Crataegus viridis | Green hawthorn Southern thorn | |
| Cuscuta indecora | Bigseed alfalfa dodder Largeseed dodder Pretty dodder | |
| Cyperus articulatus | Jointed flatsedge Chintul | |
| Cyperus elegans | Royal flatsedge | |
| Cylindropuntia leptocaulis | Christmas cactus Christmas cholla Desert Christmas cactus Pencil cactus Tasajillo | |
| Cyperus pseudovegetus | Marsh flatsedge Marsh Flat Sedge | |
| Cyperus retroflexus | Oneflower flatsedge | |
| Cyperus reflexus | Bentawn flatsedge | |
| Dalea emarginata | Wedgeleaf prairie clover | |
| Daucosma laciniata | Daucosma Meadow parasol | |
| Daucus pusillus | American wild carrot Rattlesnake-Weed Wild Carrot | |
| Datura quercifolia | Chinese thorn-apple Oak-leaf thorn apple Oak leaved angel's trumpet | |
| Dasylirion texanum | Texas sotol Sotol | |
| Desmanthus leptolobus | Slenderlobe bundleflower | |
| Desmanthus velutinus | Velvet bundleflower | |
| Digitaria cognata | Carolina crabgrass Fall witchgrass | |
| Dichanthelium oligosanthes var. oligosanthes | Heller's rosette grass | |
| Dicranocarpus parviflorus | Pitchfork | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas persimmon Mexican persimmon Black persimmon Chapote Chapote prieto | |
| Drosera capillaris | Pink sundew | |
| Draba platycarpa | Broadpod draba Broad-pod Draba Broadpod whitlowgrass | |
| Echinacea atrorubens | Topeka purple coneflower | |
| Echinocereus dasyacanthus | Spiny hedgehog cactus Texas rainbow cactus Golden rainbow hedgehog Yellow Pitaya | |
| Echinocereus enneacanthus var. brevispinus | Pitaya | |
| Echinocactus horizonthalonius | Devilshead | |
| Echinocereus pentalophus | Ladyfinger cactus Alicoche Dog Tail | |
| Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Cactus Lace hedgehog cactus Órgano-pequeño de colores Purple candle | |
| Echinacea sanguinea | Sanguine purple coneflower | |
| Echeveria strictiflora | Desert Savior | |
| Echinocereus stramineus | Strawberry hedgehog cactus | |
| Echinocactus texensis | Chisos Hedgehog Devil’s head Horse crippler | |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Knockaway Sandpaper tree | |
| Elionurus barbiculmis | Woolyspike balsamscale Woolspike balsamscale | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada wild rye Canadian wildrye Prairie wildrye Nodding wildrye | |
| Eleocharis equisetoides | Jointed spikesedge | |
| Eleocharis montevidensis | Sand spikerush | |
| Eleocharis quadrangulata | Squarestem spikerush | |
| Eleocharis tuberculosa | Cone-cup spikerush Tubercled spikerush Long-tubercled spikerush | |
| Elymus virginicus | Virginia wildrye Virginia wild rye | |
| Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
| Ephedra trifurca | Ephedra Mormon tea Longleaf jointfir Jointfir Longleaf teabush Tea weed Canutillo | |
| Eragrostis curtipedicellata | Gummy lovegrass Gummy Lovegrass | |
| Eriocaulon decangulare | Tenangle pipewort Pipewort | |
| Eryngium heterophyllum | Mexican thistle Wright's eryngo | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee bean Red cardinal | |
| Eryngium hookeri | Hooker's eryngo | |
| Eragrostis intermedia | Plains lovegrass Plains Lovegrass | |
| Eryngium integrifolium | Blueflower eryngo Blue-flower coyote-thistle | |
| Eryngium leavenworthii | Leavenworth's eryngo Eryngo | |
| Erioneuron pilosum | Hairy woollygrass Hairy tridens | |
| Eryngium prostratum | Eryngium | |
| Eriochloa sericea | Texas cupgrass | |
| Erodium texanum | Fillaree Pine needle Stork’s Bill Texas stork's bill Texas stork’s bill | |
| Escobaria tuberculosa | Whitecolumn foxtail cactus | |
| Eupatorium capillifolium | Dog Fennel Dogfennel | |
| Eustoma exaltatum ssp. russellianum | Texas bluebells Texas bluebell Bluebell Showy prairie gentian Prairie gentian | |
| Euthamia gymnospermoides | Texas goldentop | |
| Eurybia hemispherica | Southern prairie aster | |
| Eupatorium serotinum | Lateflowering thoroughwort White boneset Late boneset Late-flowering boneset | |
| Evax prolifera | Bighead pygmycudweed Rabbit Tobacco | |
| Evax verna var. verna | Spring pygmycudweed | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas kidneywood Kidneywood Bee-Brush Vara dulce | |
| Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens | Stretchberry Elbowbush Stretch-berry Downy forestiera Desert olive Elbow-bush | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina buckthorn Carolina false buckthorn Indian cherry | |
| Froelichia gracilis | Slender snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
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