Wildflower is published quarterly by the Wildflower Center. Its
content is national in scope with articles about the
conservation and use of native plants as well as news from the
Wildflower Center. A subscription is provided to Wildflower
Center members as a benefit of membership. From the Executive
Director Pushing the frontiers of science When the Wildflower
Center was founded as the National Wildflower Research Center,
research was our middle name. Since 1997, we have proudly
carried the name of our co-founder, Lady Bird Johnson, but we
have not strayed from our original mission: conducting research
of national importance. As you read about Flo Oxley’s research
into the reproductive habits of one of Texas’ endangered
species, Texas wild rice, you will get a sense of the high value
of our work. Oxley, who is earning her Ph.D. in aquatic
resources at Texas State University, is our director of
education and plant conservation and the sparkplug that powers
our effort to bank seeds of many species against glob