Native Plants
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 |
Thymophylla tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
Thymophylla tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
Tinantia anomala | False Dayflower Widows Tears | |
Tridens albescens | White Tridens White Top | |
Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
Tradescantia gigantea | Giant Spiderwort | |
Tradescantia pedicellata | Edwards Plateau Spiderwort Granite Spiderwort | |
Tridens strictus | Longspike Tridens | |
Ulmus crassifolia | Cedar Elm Fall Elm Basket Elm Scrub Elm Lime Elm Texas Elm Southern Rock Elm Olmo | |
Ulmus crassifolia | Cedar Elm Fall Elm Basket Elm Scrub Elm Lime Elm Texas Elm Southern Rock Elm Olmo | |
Ulmus crassifolia | Cedar Elm Fall Elm Basket Elm Scrub Elm Lime Elm Texas Elm Southern Rock Elm Olmo | |
Urochloa texana | Texas Signalgrass | |
Urochloa texana | Texas Signalgrass | |
Valerianella amarella | Hairy Cornsalad | |
Vachellia farnesiana | Huisache Texas Huisache Sweet Acacia Perfume Acacia Mealy Acacia Mealy Wattle Cassie | |
Valerianella radiata | Beaked Cornsalad Woods Corn-salad | |
Varilla texana | Texas Varilla | |
Vernonia baldwinii | Western Ironweed Baldwin's Ironweed Ironweed | |
Vernonia baldwinii | Western Ironweed Baldwin's Ironweed Ironweed | |
Verbena canescens | Gray Vervain | |
Verbesina encelioides | Cowpen Daisy Golden Crownbeard Butter Daisy | |
Verbena halei | Texas Vervain Slender Verbena Texas Verbena Slender Vervain | |
Verbesina lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Crownbeard | |
Verbesina lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Crownbeard | |
Verbesina lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Crownbeard | |
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |