Texas Bluebonnet
by Elizabeth Budd
Title
Texas Bluebonnet
Artist
Elizabeth Budd
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
The Bluebonnet is a hardy winter annual native to Texas. Adopted as the "State Flower of Texas", this is the most commonly seen variety along roadsides and in uncultivated pastures throughout the state. It's a sure sign of spring when Bluebonnets start to spring up alongside highways in Texas. Named for its color and, it is said, the resemblance of its petal to a woman's sunbonnet, the bluebonnet is the state flower of Texas. It blooms in the early spring and can be readily found in fields and along the roadsides throughout central and south Texas.
Scientifically named Lupinus texensis, the bluebonnet is also called buffalo clover, wolf flower, and (by the Mexicans) el conejo. It was adopted as the official state flower by the Texas Legislature in 1901.
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May 10th, 2013
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