![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing in this weblog is done rigorously: it's a forum to let my mind be unruly, a place for jottings and first impressions. I consider blogging to be a very informal type of publishing - like putting up thoughts on your door with a note asking for comments. Primary wildflower season usually lasts from March through June, so we are not even halfway through.įor a rough introduction to my philosophy of blogging, including the Code of Amiability I try to follow on this weblog, please read my fifth anniversary post. There are some notable flowers that really aren't out yet this spring, like the Indian blanket, of which I have only seen one, or the giant spiderwort or the purple cornflower. It's a picky flower, and, as its name suggests it likes the rain it comes after the showers and never stays around long. Wikimedia commons doesn't seem to have an image, but you can see it at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center website. The Texas purple thistle, Cirsium horridulum, has also occasionally been making an appearance.Īnother one I have occasionally seen is Texas star, Lindheimera texana.Įvery time it rains, there's a few days in which we get the rain lily, also known as the flor de mayo. Its flowers are edible, but the plant is an efficient accumulator of selenium, which means that its leaves and roots can become quite toxic. Because it is a standard for seeding, for obvious reasons, you always see a lot.Īnother bright bloom is the Indian paintbrush, Castilleja indivisa, also known as prairie-fire. The state flower, of course, is the Texas bluebonnet, Lupinus texensis. It's usually a shy bloom, since you usually find them here and there in tucked-away places, but it has been all over this spring. This year I started seeing them in late February. It's a common enough flower in the southern United States, but Central Texas tends to get them a bit earlier than most places due to mild winters and wet springs. The star of this spring has been the evening primrose, Oenothera speciosa, also known as pinklady. There has been quite an abundance recently I intended to get out with a camera, but haven't had the time, and the weather is not cooperating today, so I will just use Wikimedia Commons. Wildflowers are found in profusion naturally (more than 5000 species flowering plants, many of them very brightly colored), they are seeded by the state along the long stretches of highways (the state of Texas has more than 800,000 acres of side-of-the-highway land, and the Department of Transportation essentially landscapes most of it as wildflower grounds), and people go wildflower hunting. ![]()
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