Native Plants
Image Gallery
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 |
| Diarrhena americana | American Beakgrain |  |
| Diarrhena americana | American Beakgrain |  |
| Dicranocarpus parviflorus | Pitchfork |  |
| Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon | Roundseed Panicgrass |  |
| Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto |  |
| Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping Coneflower Clasping-leaf Coneflower |  |
| Echinacea angustifolia | Black Samson Black Samson Echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower |  |
| Echinacea atrorubens | Topeka Purple Coneflower |  |
| Echinocereus dasyacanthus | Texas Rainbow Cactus Spiny Hedgehog Cactus Spiny Hedgehog Golden Rainbow Hedgehog Cactus Golden Rainbow Hedgehog Yellow Pitaya |  |
| Echinochloa muricata | American Barnyard Grass Rough Barnyard Grass Barnyard Grass American Cockspur Grass Wild Millet |  |
| Echinochloa muricata var. muricata | Rough Barnyardgrass Rough Barnyard Grass |  |
| Echinocereus pentalophus | Ladyfinger Cactus Alicoche Dog Tail Devil's Fingers |  |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower |  |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Anacahuita Knockaway Knackaway Sandpaper Tree Manzanita Manzanillo Tlalahuacate |  |
| Elionurus barbiculmis | Woolyspike Balsamscale Woolspike Balsamscale |  |
| Elionurus barbiculmis | Woolyspike Balsamscale Woolspike Balsamscale |  |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye |  |
| Eleocharis quadrangulata | Squarestem Spikerush |  |
| Ephedra trifurca | Ephedra Mormon Tea Longleaf Jointfir Jointfir Longleaf Teabush Tea Weed Canutillo |  |
| Eriochloa contracta | Prairie Cupgrass |  |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal |  |
| Eryngium hookeri | Hooker's Eryngo |  |
| Eryngium leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Eryngo Eryngo False Purple Thistle |  |
| Eriochloa sericea | Texas Cupgrass |  |
| Eriochloa sericea | Texas Cupgrass |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |