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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 |
| Saururus cernuus | Lizard's Tail Lizard Tail Breastweed Water Dragon |  |
| Salvia farinacea | Mealy Blue Sage Mealy Sage Mealycup Sage |  |
| Saccharum giganteum | Sugarcane Plumegrass Giant Plumegrass |  |
| Saccharum giganteum | Sugarcane Plumegrass Giant Plumegrass |  |
| Saccharum giganteum | Sugarcane Plumegrass Giant Plumegrass |  |
| Salvia lyrata | Lyreleaf Sage Cancer Weed |  |
| Sabal mexicana | Texas Palm Texas Palmetto Mexican Palm Mexican Palmetto Rio Grande Palmetto Victoria Palmetto Palma De Micharos Apachite |  |
| Salvia pentstemonoides | Big Red Sage Penstemon Sage |  |
| Sagittaria platyphylla | Delta Arrowhead |  |
| Salvia reflexa | Mintweed Lanceleaf Sage Lamb's-leaf Sage Rocky Mountain Sage Sage Mint Blue Sage |  |
| Salvia roemeriana | Cedar Sage |  |
| Salvia whitehousei | Clustered Sage |  |
| Schaefferia cuneifolia | Desert Yaupon |  |
| Schkuhria pinnata var. guatemalensis | Wislizenus' False Threadleaf |  |
| Schkuhria pinnata var. guatemalensis | Wislizenus' False Threadleaf |  |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little Bluestem Popotillo Azul |  |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little Bluestem Popotillo Azul |  |
| Scutellaria wrightii | Wright's Skullcap Bushy Skullcap Shrubby Skullcap |  |
| Senna bauhinioides | Twinleaf Senna Twinleaf |  |
| Sesbania drummondii | Rattlebush Rattlebox Poisonbean |  |
| Selenia grandis | Large Selenia |  |
| Senna lindheimeriana | Lindheimer's Senna Velvet Leaf Senna Velvetleaf Senna Velvet-leaf Wild Sensitive-plant Puppy-dog Ears |  |
| Senna roemeriana | Twoleaf Senna Two Leaved Senna |  |
| Setaria scheelei | Southwestern Bristlegrass Scheele's Bristlegrass Scheele's Foxtail Grass Foxtail Grass |  |
| Senegalia wrightii | Wright Acacia Wright's Acacia Catclaw Acacia Catclaw |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |