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 |
Merremia dissecta | Alamo Vine Noyau Vine Correhuela De Las Doce | |
Mentzelia oligosperma | Stick-leaf Chickenthief | |
Mecardonia procumbens | Baby Jump-up | |
Melochia pyramidata | Pyramidflower Broom-wood Pyramid Flower | |
Minuartia drummondii | Drummond's Stitchwort Sandwort | |
Mimosa latidens | Kairn's Sensitive Briar | |
Mitreola petiolata | Lax Hornpod | |
Mikania scandens | Climbing Hempvine Climbing Hempweed | |
Mimosa strigillosa | Powderpuff Sunshine Mimosa Sensitive Plant | |
Modiola caroliniana | Carolina Bristlemallow Carolina Modiola | |
Morella cerifera | Wax Myrtle Southern Wax Myrtle Southern Bayberry Eastern Bayberry Bayberry Candleberry Tallow Shrub | |
Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
Monarda clinopodioides | Basil Beebalm | |
Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf Muhly Hair-awn Muhly Hairy-awn Muhly Hair Grass Pink Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia rigida | Purple Muhly | |
Nama havardii | Havard's Fiddleleaf | |
Nama jamaicense | Jamaicanweed Jamaican Weed Fiddleleaf Nama | |
Nassella leucotricha | Texas Wintergrass Texas Speargrass Wintergrass | |
Nekemias arborea | Peppervine | |
Nerisyrenia camporum | Bicolor Fanmustard Mesa Greggia | |
Nemastylis geminiflora | Prairie Celestials Celestials Prairie Pleatleaf | |
Nerisyrenia linearifolia | White Sands Fanmustard | |
Nelumbo lutea | American Lotus Yellow Water Lotus Yellow Lotus | |
Nemophila phacelioides | Texas Baby Blue Eyes Large-flower Baby-blue-eyes Baby Blue-eyes Flannel Breeches | |
Neptunia pubescens | Tropical Puff | |
Nemastylis tenuis | Southwestern Pleatleaf | |
Nicotiana repanda | Fiddleleaf Tobacco Fiddle-leaf Tobacco | |
Nothoscordum bivalve | Crowpoison False Garlic Crow Poison | |
Nolina lindheimeriana | Devil's Shoestring Devil's-shoestring Ribbon Grass | |
Nuttallanthus texanus | Texas Toadflax Texas Toad-flax Toadflax | |
Oenothera macrocarpa | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Missouri Evening-primrose Fluttermill Big-fruit Evening-primrose Missouri Primrose Bigfruit Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera speciosa | Pink Evening Primrose Showy Evening Primrose Mexican Evening Primrose Showy Primrose Pink Ladies Buttercups Pink Buttercups | |
Onosmodium helleri | Heller's Marbleseed Marble-seed | |
Opuntia engelmannii | Cactus Apple Prickly Pear | |
Opuntia humifusa | Low Prickly Pear Smooth Prickly Pear Devil's Tongue | |
Opuntia strigil | Marblefruit Pricklypear Marblefruit Prickly Pear | |
Orobanche ludoviciana ssp. multiflora | Manyflower Broomrape | |
Ostrya virginiana | Eastern Hop-hornbeam American Hop-hornbeam Woolly Hop-hornbean Eastern Ironwood Roughbark Ironwood Ironwood Deerwood Leverwood | |
Oxalis dillenii | Slender Yellow Wood Sorrel Yellow Wood Sorrel Yellow Woodsorrel | |
Oxalis drummondii | Drummond's Wood-sorrel Large-leaf Wood-sorrel Drummond's Woodsorrel | |
Parkinsonia aculeata | Retama Paloverde Mexican Paloverde Jerusalem Thorn Horsebean Lluvia De Oro | |
Palafoxia callosa | Small Palafox Small Palafoxia | |
Paspalidium geminatum | Egyptian Panicgrass | |
Panicum hallii | Hall's Panicgrass Hall's Panic Grass | |
Palafoxia hookeriana | Sand Palafox Showy Palafox Hooker Palafoxia Sand Palafoxia Hooker's Palafoxia | |
Paspalum langei | Rustyseed Paspalum | |
Passiflora lutea | Yellow Passionflower Yellow Passion Vine Yellow Passion-flower | |
Packera millelobata | Uinta Ragwort | |
Panicum obtusum | Vine Mesquite | |
Packera obovata | Golden Groundsel Roundleaf Groundsel Roundleaf Ragwort | |
Parietaria pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Pellitory Pennsylvania Cucumber Plant | |
Passiflora tenuiloba | Birdwing Passionflower Slender-lobe Passionflower Spread Lobe Passionflower Bird Wing Passionflower | |
Parkinsonia texana var. texana | Texas Paloverde Texas Palo-verde Palo-verde | |
Pappophorum vaginatum | Whiplash Pappusgrass | |
Penstemon baccharifolius | Rock Penstemon Rock Beardtongue Cut-leaf Penstemon Cut-leaf Beardtongue Baccharis-leaf Penstemon Baccharis-leaf Beardtongue | |
Penstemon fendleri | Fendler's Penstemon Fendler's Beardtongue Fendler Penstemon Fendler Beardtongue Purple Foxglove | |
Penstemon havardii | Havard Penstemon Havard Beardtongue Big Bend Penstemon Big Bend Beardtongue Havard's Penstemon Havard's Beardtongue | |
Penstemon laxiflorus | Nodding Penstemon Nodding Beardtongue Loose-flowered Penstemon Loose-flowered Beardtongue | |
Peganum mexicanum | Garbancillo | |
Penstemon murrayanus | Scarlet Penstemon Scarlet Beardtongue Red Penstemon Red Beardtongue Cupleaf Penstemon Cupleaf Beardtongue | |
Perityle vaseyi | Vasey's Rockdaisy | |
Phaseolus acutifolius | Tepary Bean | |
Phalaris caroliniana | Carolina Canarygrass Maygrass | |
Physalis cinerascens var. cinerascens | Smallflower Groundcherry | |
Phacelia congesta | Caterpillars Blue Curls Fiddleneck | |
Phryma leptostachya | American Lopseed Lopseed | |
Phaseolus maculatus | Spotted Bean Metcalf Bean | |
Phyla nodiflora | Texas Frogfruit Turkey Tangle Fogfruit Frogfruit | |
Phacelia robusta | Stout Phacelia | |
Phacelia rupestris | Rock Phacelia | |
Piptochaetium avenaceum | Blackseed Speargrass | |
Pinus cembroides | Mexican Pinyon Mexican Pinyon Pine Pinyon Nut Pine Border Pinyon | |
Pinaropappus roseus | White Rocklettuce White Dandelion Pink Dandelion White Rock Lettuce | |
Plantago aristata | Largebracted Plantain Buckthorn | |
Platanthera ciliaris | Orange Fringed Orchid Yellow Fringed Orchid Orange Plume Bobwhite's-mocassin Owl's-head | |
Pluchea foetida | Stinking Camphorweed | |
Plantago helleri | Heller's Plantain Cedar Plantain | |
Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
Pluchea odorata | Sweetscent Saltmarsh Fleabane | |
Plantago rhodosperma | Redseed Plantain Red-seeded Plantain | |
Plantago wrightiana | Wright's Plantain | |
Polanisia dodecandra | Redwhisker Clammyweed Clammyweed | |
Poliomintha glabrescens | Leafy Rosemary-mint | |
Polytaenia nuttallii | Nuttall's Prairie Parsley Prairie Parsley Wild Dill Prairie Parsnip | |
Portulaca pilosa | Kiss Me Quick Chisme | |
Polypremum procumbens | Juniper Leaf Rustweed | |
Porophyllum scoparium | Trans-pecos Poreleaf Poreleaf Shrubby Poreleaf Hierba del Venado Jarilla Pomerillo | |
Polytaenia texana | Texas Prairie Parsley Texas-parsley Texas Parsley | |
Polanisia uniglandulosa | Mexican Clammyweed Clammyweed | |
Proboscidea louisianica | Louisiana Devil's-claw Devil's claw Ram's-horn Unicorn Plant Proboscis Flower | |
Prunus mexicana | Mexican Plum Bigtree Plum Inch Plum | |
Prunus serotina var. virens | Southwestern Black Cherry Southwestern Chokecherry Black Cherry | |
Ptilimnium nuttallii | Laceflower Mock Bishop's-weed | |
Ptelea trifoliata ssp. trifoliata | Common Hoptree Baldwin Hop-tree | |
Pycnanthemum albescens | Whiteleaf Mountain Mint | |
Quincula lobata | Purple Groundcherry Chinese Lantern Purple Ground Cherry | |
Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
Rayjacksonia phyllocephala | Camphor Daisy | |
Rhus aromatica | Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Lemon Sumac Polecat Bush | |
Rhododon ciliatus | Texas Sandmint | |
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