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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 |
| Abronia ameliae | Amelia's Sand-verbena Heart's Delight | |
| Abutilon fruticosum | Texas Indian Mallow Indian Mallow | |
| Abutilon incanum | Pelotazo Indian Mallow Shrubby Indian Mallow | |
| Acmella oppositifolia var. repens | Oppositeleaf Spotflower Opposite-leaf Spotflower | |
| Acalypha phleoides | Shrubby Copperleaf Three-seeded Mercury | |
| Adolphia infesta | Junco | |
| Agalinis edwardsiana | Plateau False Foxglove Plateau Agalinis Plateau Gerardia Plateau False-foxglove | |
| Agalinis fasciculata | Beach False Foxglove | |
| Agave havardiana | Havard's Century Plant Havard Agave | |
| Ageratina havanensis | Shrubby Boneset White Mistflower White Shrub Mistflower Havana Snakeroot | |
| Agalinis heterophylla | Prairie Agalinis Prairie False-foxglove | |
| Agalinis maritima | Saltmarsh False Foxglove | |
| Agastache micrantha | White Giant Hyssop | |
| Aletris aurea | Golden Colicroot Colicroot Star Grass Yellow Colic Root | |
| Allium canadense var. fraseri | Fraser Meadow Garlic Fraser Meadow Garlic Wild Onion | |
| Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
| Allowissadula holosericea | Velvet-leaf Mallow Chisos Mountain False Indianmallow | |
| Ambrosia confertiflora | Weakleaf Bur Ragweed Weak Leaved Burweed Slimleaf Bursage | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
| Amaranthus greggii | Gregg's Amaranth | |
| Ambrosia trifida | Great Ragweed Giant Ragweed | |
| Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal Anemone Tenpetal Thimbleweed Windflower Southern Anemone Granny's Nightcap | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
| Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard Bluestem Split Bluestem | |
| Argemone aenea | Golden Pricklypoppy Golden Prickly Poppy | |
| Argemone albiflora ssp. texana | Texas Bluestem Pricklypoppy Bluestem Pricklypoppy White Pricklypoppy White Prickly Poppy | |
| Argemone aurantiaca | Texas Pricklypoppy Texas Prickly Poppy | |
| Aristida lanosa | Woollysheath Threeawn Woolly Three-awn | |
| Aristida longespica | Slimspike Threeawn Kearney's Three-awn Red Three-awn Slender Three-awn | |
| Aristida oligantha | Prairie Threeawn Oldfield (Prairie) 3-awn Oldfield Threeawn | |
| Arabis petiolaris | Brazos Rockcress Rock-cress Brazos Rock-cress | |
| Aristida purpurea | Purple Threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple Three-awn Red Threeawn | |
| Argemone sanguinea | Red Pricklypoppy Rose Prickly Poppy Red Prickly Poppy | |
| Asclepias asperula ssp. capricornu | Antelope-horns Antelope Horns Antelope Horns Milkweed | |
| Asclepias brachystephana | Bract Milkweed Desert-rose Milkweed | |
| Astragalus crassicarpus | Groundplum Milkvetch Ground Plum | |
| Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes Milkweed Hierba De Zizotes Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
| Asimina parviflora | Smallflower Pawpaw Small-flower Pawpaw Dwarf Pawpaw | |
| Atriplex matamorensis | Matamoros Saltbush | |
| Baccharis bigelovii | Bigelow's False Willow | |
| Batis maritima | Turtleweed Seaside Saltwort | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Baptisia nuttalliana | Nuttall's Wild Indigo | |
| Bahia pedata | Bluntscale Bahia | |
| Baptisia sphaerocarpa | Yellow Wild Indigo Green Wild Indigo Bush Pea Yellow Wisteria | |
| Berlandiera betonicifolia | Texas Greeneyes Broochflower | |
| Berlandiera pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
| Berchemia scandens | Alabama Supplejack Alabama Supple-jack Rattan-vine | |
| Bifora americana | Prairie Bishop Prairie Bishop's Weed | |
| Bidens bigelovii | Bigelow's Beggarticks | |
| Bothriochloa alta | Tall Beardgrass | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Bouchetia erecta | Erect Bouchetia Painted-tongue Paintedtongue Painted Tongue | |
| Borrichia frutescens | Bushy Seaside Tansy Ox-eye Daisy Sea Daisy Sea Ox-eye | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy Grama | |
| Bothriochloa laguroides | Silver Bluestem Silver Beardgrass | |
| Bothriochloa longipaniculata | Longspike Beardgrass Longspike Silver Bluestem | |
| Bouteloua rigidiseta | Texas Grama | |
| Bouteloua trifida | Red Grama | |
| Brickellia cylindracea | Gravel-bar Brickellbush | |
| Brickellia dentata | Leafy Brickellbush | |
| Bromus lanatipes | Woolly Brome | |
| Brazoria truncata | Rattlesnake Flower | |
| Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
| Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum | Chile Pequin Chile Tepin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper | |
| Calylophus berlandieri | Berlandier's Sundrops Square-bud Primrose Sundrops | |
| Carex cherokeensis | Cherokee Sedge | |
| Carex complanata | Hirsute Sedge | |
| Castela erecta ssp. texana | Texan Goatbush Goat-bush Allthorn Goatbush Amargoso | |
| Carex glaucescens | Southern Waxy Sedge | |
| Castilleja indivisa | Texas Indian Paintbrush Entireleaf Indian Paintbrush Texas Paintbrush Indian Paintbrush Scarlet Paintbrush | |
| Cakile lanceolata | Coastal Searocket | |
| Castilleja lanata | Sierra Woolly Indian Paintbrush Woolly Paintbrush | |
| Carex louisianica | Louisiana Sedge | |
| Carex oklahomensis | Oklahoma Sedge | |
| Callirhoe pedata | Palmleaf Poppymallow Standing Winecup Finger Poppymallow Palmleaf Poppy Mallow | |
| Castilleja purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Paintbrush Purple Prairie Painbrush Prairie Paintbrush Downy Indian Paintbrush | |
| Carex tenax | Wire Sedge | |
| Carex tetrastachya | Britton's Sedge | |
| Carex triangularis | Eastern Fox Sedge | |
| Calyptocarpus vialis | Horseherb Straggler Daisy Hierba Del Caballo Lawnflower | |
| Centaurium beyrichii | Mountain Pink Mountain Centaury Quinineweed Rock Centaury Meadow Pink Catchfly | |
| Cerastium brachypodum | Shortstalk Chickweed Short-stalk Chickweed | |
| Celtis ehrenbergiana | Desert Hackberry Spiny Hackberry Shiny Hackberry Granjeno Huasteco | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
| Cevallia sinuata | Stinging Serpent Stinging Cevallia | |
| Cenchrus spinifex | Grass Bur Coastal Sandbur Field Sandspur Southern Sandbur Spiny Burrgrass | |
| Centaurium texense | Lady Bird's Centaury Texas Centaury | |
| Centrosema virginianum | Spurred Butterfly Pea Butterfly Pea | |
| Chaetopappa asteroides | Arkansas Leastdaisy Least Daisy | |
| Chloris cucullata | Hooded Windmill Grass Hooded Windmillgrass | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant | |
| 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 Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |