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Native Seed Imaging Project
Bruce Leander, Wildflower Center volunteer photographer, put his considerable skills to the test this winter when he set out to chronicle hundreds of seeds of Texas species collected by the Wildflower Center for storage in the Millennium Seed Bank Project - a global plant conservation effort developed by England's Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. The process required the use of a high quality macro lens with extension tubes and three flash units to capture the beautiful intricacy of seeds of plants the Center hopes to protect from extinction. Staff member, Minette Marr, and a small army of volunteers painstakingly prepared the seeds and removed dust and debris to make the seeds camera-ready.
We would like to thank (in alphabetical order) Sam Elkin, Charlene Farris, Maggie Glazener, Pippa Gordon, Patty Koeninger, Betty Korts, Karen Langridge, Betty Mading, George Mading, Rae Minyard, Robert Neese, Susan Norwood, Sam Strickland, Guy Thompson and Janice Zimmerman who provided invaluable assistance during the photoshoots and on other parts of the project.
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Indigofera miniata | Scarlet Pea Coastal Indigo Texas Indigo Western Indigo |  |
| Ipomoea costellata var. edwardsensis | Edwards Plateau Crestrib Morning-glory Edwards Plateau Crest-rib Morning-glory Edwards Plateau Crested Morning-glory |  |
| Ipomoea pes-caprae | Railroad Vine Goat-foot Morning Glory Bayhops Beach Morning Glory |  |
| Ipomopsis rubra | Standing Cypress Texas Plume Red Texas Star Red Gilia |  |
| Iva annua | Annual Marshelder Marshelder Sumpweed Annual Marsh Elder Marsh Elder |  |
| Jefea brevifolia | Shortleaf Jefea |  |
| Juniperus ashei | Ashe Juniper Ashe's Juniper Mountain Cedar Rock Cedar Post Cedar Texas Cedar Brake Cedar Mexican Juniper Blueberry Juniper Ozark White Cedar Sabino Enebro |  |
| Juglans microcarpa | Little Walnut Texas Walnut Texas Black Walnut River Walnut Nogalito Nogalillo Namboca |  |
| Justicia pacifica | Runyon's Water-willow |  |
| Karwinskia humboldtiana | Coyotillo Humboldt Coyotillo |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |