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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 |
| Cymopterus macrorhizus | Bigroot Springparsley Big-root Cymopterus |  |
| Cymopterus macrorhizus | Bigroot Springparsley Big-root Cymopterus |  |
| Cyclanthera naudiniana | Hill Country Cyclanthera Naudin's Cyclanthera Central Texas Cyclanthera |  |
| Cyclanthera naudiniana | Hill Country Cyclanthera Naudin's Cyclanthera Central Texas Cyclanthera |  |
| Cyperus retrorsus | Pine Barren Flatsedge |  |
| Dalea aurea | Golden Dalea Golden Prairie Clover |  |
| Dalea aurea | Golden Dalea Golden Prairie Clover |  |
| Dalea candida | White Prairie Clover |  |
| Dalea compacta | Compact Prairie Clover Purple Prairie Clover |  |
| Dalea enneandra | Nine-anther Prairie Clover |  |
| Dalea greggii | Gregg Dalea Gregg's Prairie Clover Trailing Indigo Bush Indigo Bush |  |
| Dalea multiflora | Roundhead Prairie Clover White Prairie Clover Round Headed Dalea Round Headed Clover |  |
| Daucus pusillus | American Wild Carrot Rattlesnake-weed Wild Carrot |  |
| Daucus pusillus | American Wild Carrot Rattlesnake-weed Wild Carrot |  |
| Dalea purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover |  |
| Datura quercifolia | Chinese Thorn-apple Oak-leaf Thorn Apple Oak Leaved Angel's Trumpet |  |
| Dalea reverchonii | Comanche Peak Prairie Clover |  |
| Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed |  |
| Desmanthus acuminatus | Sharp Pod Bundleflower Wild Tantan |  |
| Delphinium carolinianum ssp. virescens | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur Plains Larkspur |  |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois Bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie Bundle Flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie Mimosa |  |
| Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil Velcro Vine |  |
| Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil Velcro Vine |  |
| Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Velcro Vine |  |
| Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Velcro Vine |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |