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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 |
| Allium canadense var. mobilense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion |  |
| Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion |  |
| Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia |  |
| Allowissadula holosericea | Velvet-leaf Mallow Chisos Mountain False Indianmallow |  |
| Alnus serrulata | Smooth Alder Hazel Alder Brookside Alder Tag Alder Common Alder Black Alder |  |
| Amsonia ciliata | Fringed Bluestar Bluestar Texas Bluestar |  |
| Ammannia coccinea | Valley Redstem Scarlet Tooth-cup |  |
| Ampelopsis cordata | Heartleaf Peppervine Heart-leaf Ampelopsis |  |
| Ambrosia confertiflora | Weakleaf Bur Ragweed Weak Leaved Burweed Slimleaf Bursage |  |
| Amaranthus greggii | Gregg's Amaranth |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |