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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 |
| 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 |