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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 |
| 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 |  |
| Thymophylla tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf |  |
| Thymophylla tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf |  |
| Tinantia anomala | False Dayflower Widows Tears Widow's 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Vernonia lindheimeri | Woolly Ironweed |  |
| Vernonia lindheimeri | Woolly Ironweed |  |
| Vernonia lindheimeri | Woolly Ironweed |  |
| Verbesina oreophila | Mountain Crownbeard |  |
| Verbesina oreophila | Mountain Crownbeard |  |
| Verbesina oreophila | Mountain Crownbeard |  |
| Verbena runyonii | Rio Grande Vervain |  |
| Verbena scabra | Sandpaper Vervain |  |
| Verbesina virginica | Frostweed White Crownbeard Iceplant Iceweed Virginia Crownbeard Indian Tobacco Richweed Squawweed |  |
| Verbesina virginica | Frostweed White Crownbeard Iceplant Iceweed Virginia Crownbeard Indian Tobacco Richweed Squawweed |  |
| Verbesina virginica | Frostweed White Crownbeard Iceplant Iceweed Virginia Crownbeard Indian Tobacco Richweed Squawweed |  |
| Verbena xutha | Gulf Vervain |  |
| Vitis cinerea var. helleri | Winter Grape Heller's Grape Gray-leaf Grape Smooth-leaf Grape Sweet Grape Spanish Grape |  |
| Viguiera dentata | Plateau Goldeneye Sunflower Goldeneye Toothleaf Goldeneye Chimalacate Golden-eye |  |
| Viguiera dentata | Plateau Goldeneye Sunflower Goldeneye Toothleaf Goldeneye Chimalacate Golden-eye |  |
| Viguiera dentata | Plateau Goldeneye Sunflower Goldeneye Toothleaf Goldeneye Chimalacate Golden-eye |  |
| Viguiera dentata | Plateau Goldeneye Sunflower Goldeneye Toothleaf Goldeneye Chimalacate Golden-eye |  |
| Vicia ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch |  |
| Vicia ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch |  |
| Viola missouriensis | Missouri Violet |  |
| Vitis mustangensis | Mustang Grape |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |