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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 |
| 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 |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |