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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 |
| Ruellia drummondiana | Drummond's Ruellia Drummond's Wild Petunia |  |
| Rudbeckia grandiflora | Rough Coneflower Tall Coneflower Largeflower Coneflower |  |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan |  |
| Rudbeckia maxima | Giant Coneflower Great Coneflower Giant Brown-eyed Susan Cabbage Coneflower |  |
| Rudbeckia maxima | Giant Coneflower Great Coneflower Giant Brown-eyed Susan Cabbage Coneflower |  |
| Rudbeckia scabrifolia | Roughleaf Coneflower Sabine Coneflower Bog Brown-eyed Susan |  |
| Rudbeckia texana | Texas Coneflower |  |
| Rudbeckia texana | Texas Coneflower |  |
| Rubus trivialis | Southern Dewberry Dewberry |  |
| Salvia azurea var. grandiflora | Pitcher Sage Blue Sage |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |