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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 |
| Sida abutifolia | Spreading Fanpetals Spreading Sida |  |
| Sicyos angulatus | One-seed Burr Cucumber Star Cucumber |  |
| Sicyos angulatus | One-seed Burr Cucumber Star Cucumber |  |
| Sisyrinchium biforme | Wiry Blue-eyed Grass |  |
| Simsia calva | Awnless Bush Sunflower Bush Sunflower |  |
| Sideroxylon celastrinum | Saffron Plum Coma Saffron Plum La Coma Coma Milk Buckthorn Tropical Buckthorn Downward Plum Antswood |  |
| Silphium gracile | Slender Rosinweed |  |
| Sideroxylon lanuginosum | Gum Bumelia Gum Bully Woollybucket Bumelia Woolly Bumelia Gum Woollybucket Woolly Buckthorn Chittamwood Shittamwood Gum Elastic Coma Black Haw |  |
| Sicyos microphyllus | Small-leaf Bur Cucumber |  |
| Sida rhombifolia | Cuban Jute Axocatzin |  |
| Sida rhombifolia | Cuban Jute Axocatzin |  |
| Sida spinosa | Prickly Fanpetals |  |
| Sida spinosa | Prickly Fanpetals |  |
| Sida spinosa | Prickly Fanpetals |  |
| Smilax bona-nox | Sawbriar Saw Greenbriar Catbriar Bullbriar Stretchberry Vine |  |
| Solanum dimidiatum | Western Horsenettle Western Horse-nettle |  |
| Sorghastrum elliottii | Slender Indiangrass |  |
| Sorghastrum elliottii | Slender Indiangrass |  |
| Solidago nemoralis | Gray Goldenrod Prairie Goldenrod Oldfield Goldenrod Grayleaf Goldenrod Gray-leaved Goldenrod Dyersweed Goldenrod Dwarf Goldenrod Field Goldenrod |  |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass |  |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass |  |
| Solanum rostratum | Buffalo Bur Buffalo Bur Nightshade Buffalobur Nightshade |  |
| Solidago sempervirens | Seaside Goldenrod |  |
| Solidago sempervirens | Seaside Goldenrod |  |
| Sophora tomentosa | Yellow Necklacepod Yellow Sophora Necklace Pod Tambalisa |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |