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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 |
| Escobaria missouriensis | Missouri Foxtail Cactus Plains Nipple Cactus |  |
| Euphorbia cyathophora | Wild Poinsettia Poinsettia Fire On The Mountain |  |
| Eurybia hemispherica | Southern Prairie Aster |  |
| Eurybia hemispherica | Southern Prairie Aster |  |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas Kidneywood Kidneywood Bee Brush Vara Dulce Palo Dulce |  |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache Plume Ponil |  |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache Plume Ponil |  |
| Forestiera pubescens | Elbowbush Stretchberry Spring Herald Desert Olive Tanglewood Devil's Elbow Spring Goldenglow New Mexico Privet Texas Forsythia |  |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash Mountain Ash |  |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash |  |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood |  |
| Fraxinus cuspidata | Fragrant Ash Flowering Ash |  |
| Fraxinus greggii | Gregg's Ash Gregg Ash Littleleaf Ash Dogleg Ash Escobilla Barreta China |  |
| Funastrum cynanchoides | Fringed Twinevine Climbing Milkweed Vine Twine-vine |  |
| Gaillardia aestivalis | Lanceleaf Blanketflower Winkler Gaillardia |  |
| Galphimia angustifolia | Narrowleaf Goldshower Thryallis Narrow-leaf Goldshower |  |
| Garrya ovata ssp. lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Silktassel Lindheimer Silktassel Lindheimer's Garrya Lindheimer Garrya Mexican Silktassel Mexican Garrya Eggleaf Silktassel Eggleaf Garrya |  |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo |  |
| Gaillardia suavis | Pincushion Daisy Fragrant Gaillardia Rayless Gaillardia Perfumeballs |  |
| Gaillardia suavis | Pincushion Daisy Fragrant Gaillardia Rayless Gaillardia Perfumeballs |  |
| Galium uniflorum | Oneflower Bedstraw |  |
| Geraea canescens | Hairy Desert-sunflower Desert Sunflower Desert Gold |  |
| Geraea canescens | Hairy Desert-sunflower Desert Sunflower Desert Gold |  |
| Geum canadense | White Avens |  |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina Jessamine Yellow Jessamine Evening Trumpetflower Poor Man's Rope |  |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina Jessamine Yellow Jessamine Evening Trumpetflower Poor Man's Rope |  |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Vervain Dakota Mock Vervain Moradilla Alfombrilla |  |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree |  |
| Gomphrena nealleyi | Nealley's Globe Amaranth |  |
| Gomphrena nealleyi | Nealley's Globe Amaranth |  |
| Gomphrena nitida | Pearly Globe Amaranth |  |
| Gomphrena nitida | Pearly Globe Amaranth |  |
| Grindelia lanceolata | Narrowleaf Gumweed Fall Gumweed |  |
| Grindelia lanceolata | Narrowleaf Gumweed Fall Gumweed |  |
| Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broom Snakeweed Kindlingweed Matchbrush Texas Snakeweed Broomweed Turpentine Weed Matchweed |  |
| Haploesthes greggii var. texana | Texas False Broomweed |  |
| Haploesthes greggii var. texana | Texas False Broomweed |  |
| Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp Sunflower Narrowleaf Sunflower Narrow-leaved Sunflower |  |
| Helianthus argophyllus | Silverleaf Sunflower |  |
| Heterotheca canescens | Hoary False Goldenaster Gray Golden-aster |  |
| Heterotheca canescens | Hoary False Goldenaster Gray Golden-aster |  |
| Helianthus ciliaris | Texas Blueweed |  |
| Hechtia glomerata | Guapilla |  |
| Herbertia lahue | Prairie Nymph Herbertia |  |
| Herbertia lahue | Prairie Nymph Herbertia |  |
| Herbertia lahue | Prairie Nymph Herbertia |  |
| Helianthus maximiliani | Maximilian Sunflower Max Sunflower |  |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red Yucca Coral Yucca Red-flowered False Yucca Redflower False Yucca Yellow Yucca Hummingbird Yucca Samandoque |  |
| Helianthus praecox | Texas Sunflower |  |
| Hedeoma reverchonii var. reverchonii | Reverchon's False Pennyroyal Rock Hedeoma |  |
| Hechtia texensis | Texas False Agave Guapilla |  |
| Heliotropium torreyi | Slimleaf Heliotrope |  |
| Hilaria belangeri | Curly Mesquite Grass Curly Mesquite |  |
| Hibiscus coulteri | Desert Rosemallow Desert Rose-mallow Coulter Hibiscus |  |
| Hibiscus coulteri | Desert Rosemallow Desert Rose-mallow Coulter Hibiscus |  |
| Hibiscus dasycalyx | Neches River Rosemallow Neches River Rose-mallow |  |
| Hibiscus laevis | Halberdleaf Rosemallow Halberdleaf Hibiscus Scarlet Rose Mallow Halberd-leaved Hibiscus Halberd-leaved Rose-mallow |  |
| Hibiscus martianus | Heartleaf Rosemallow Tulipan Del Monte Heartleaf Hibiscus |  |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus |  |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus |  |
| Hibiscus striatus | Striped Rosemallow |  |
| Hymenopappus artemisiifolius | Oldplainsman Woolly-white Old Plainsman |  |
| Hymenopappus scabiosaeus | Carolina Woollywhite Woolly-white Old Plainsman |  |
| Hymenopappus scabiosaeus | Carolina Woollywhite Woolly-white Old Plainsman |  |
| Ibervillea lindheimeri | Balsam Gourd Lindheimer's Globeberry Globe Berry Snake-apple Balsam-apple |  |
| Ibervillea tenuisecta | Slimlobe Globeberry Cutleaf Globe Berry |  |
| Ilex coriacea | Baygall Bush Large Gallberry Gallberry Tall Inkberry Holly Inkberry Holly Shining Inkberry Inkberry |  |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Meadow Holly Prairie Holly Swamp Holly Welk Holly Deciduous Yaupon Bearberry Winterberry |  |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon Holly Cassina |  |
| Indigofera lindheimeriana | Lindheimer's Indigo |  |
| 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 |  |
| Kosteletzkya virginica | Virginia Saltmarsh Mallow Virginia Fen-rose Saltmarsh Mallow Seashore Mallow |  |
| Krameria lanceolata | Trailing Krameria Ratany Crameria Prairie Sandbur Trailing Ratany |  |
| Krameria lanceolata | Trailing Krameria Ratany Crameria Prairie Sandbur Trailing Ratany |  |
| Krameria lanceolata | Trailing Krameria Ratany Crameria Prairie Sandbur Trailing Ratany |  |
| Kyllinga brevifolia | Shortleaf Spikesedge |  |
| Kyllinga odorata | Fragrant Spikesedge |  |
| Leptochloa dubia | Green Sprangletop |  |
| Leptochloa dubia | Green Sprangletop |  |
| Lesquerella grandiflora | Bigflower Bladderpod |  |
| Lespedeza hirta | Hairy Lespedeza |  |
| Lespedeza hirta | Hairy Lespedeza |  |
| Leersia monandra | Cut Rice Grass Bunch Cutgrass |  |
| Leersia oryzoides | Rice Cutgrass Rice Cut Grass |  |
| Lesquerella recurvata | Gaslight Bladderpod Slender Bladderpod |  |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball Leadtree Littleleaf Leadtree Little Leucaena Lemonball Wahoo Tree |  |
| Lespedeza texana | Texas Lespedeza Texas Bush-clover |  |
| Lespedeza texana | Texas Lespedeza Texas Bush-clover |  |
| Linum alatum | Winged Flax |  |
| Limonium carolinianum | Carolina Sealavender Sea Lavender |  |
| Liatris elegans | Pink-scale Blazing Star Pink-scale Gayfeather Pink-scale Liatris |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |