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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 |
| Solanum triquetrum | Texas Nightshade Hierba Mora |  |
| Sphaeralcea lindheimeri | Woolly Globemallow |  |
| Spartina patens | Saltmeadow Cordgrass Salt-meadow Cordgrass Marsh-hay Cordgrass |  |
| Spartina patens | Saltmeadow Cordgrass Salt-meadow Cordgrass Marsh-hay Cordgrass |  |
| Sporobolus silveanus | Silveus' Dropseed |  |
| Streptanthus bracteatus | Bracted Twistflower Bracted Jewelflower |  |
| Strophostyles helvola | Trailing Fuzzybean Amberique-bean Trailing Wild Bean Trailing Fuzzy Bean |  |
| Strophostyles helvola | Trailing Fuzzybean Amberique-bean Trailing Wild Bean Trailing Fuzzy Bean |  |
| Stenosiphon linifolius | False Gaura |  |
| Stenosiphon linifolius | False Gaura |  |
| Symphyotrichum puniceum var. scabricaule | Purplestem Aster Roughstem Aster |  |
| Symphyotrichum puniceum var. scabricaule | Purplestem Aster Roughstem Aster |  |
| Tagetes micrantha | Licorice Marigold |  |
| Tagetes micrantha | Licorice Marigold |  |
| Tauschia texana | Texas Umbrellawort |  |
| Teucrium canadense | American Germander Canada Germander Canadian Germander Germander Hairy Germander Wood Sage |  |
| Teucrium cubense | Small Coastal Germander Coast Germander |  |
| Teucrium cubense | Small Coastal Germander Coast Germander |  |
| Tetragonotheca ludoviciana | Louisiana Nerveray |  |
| Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Yellow Daisy Bitterweed |  |
| Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Yellow Daisy Bitterweed |  |
| Tecoma stans | Yellow Bells Yellowbells Esperanza Yellow Trumpetbush Yellow Trumpetflower Trumpetbush Trumpetflower Yellow Elder Hardy Yellow Trumpet Yellow Trumpet Bush |  |
| Tecoma stans | Yellow Bells Yellowbells Esperanza Yellow Trumpetbush Yellow Trumpetflower Trumpetbush Trumpetflower Yellow Elder Hardy Yellow Trumpet Yellow Trumpet Bush |  |
| Tephrosia vicioides | Red Hoarypea |  |
| Thelesperma filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Greenthread |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |