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Bluebonnet, Texas Texas Bluebonnet -- Lupinus. Bluebonnet is a name given to any of a number of purple-flowered or blue-flowered species of the genus Lupinus predominantly found in southwestern United States and is collectively the state flower of Texas.
Lupinus, commonly known as lupin, lupine, [note 1] or regionally bluebonnet, is a genus of plants in the legume family Fabaceae. The genus includes over 199 species, with centres of diversity in North and South America. [1] Smaller centres occur in North Africa and the Mediterranean.
Lupinus texensis, the Texas bluebonnet or Texas lupine [1] is a species of lupine found in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas. With other related species of lupines also called bluebonnets, it is the state flower of Texas. [2] [3] It is an annual [4] which begins its life as a small ...
Bluebonnets grow in the wild all over Texas, but the state seeds bluebonnets along highways which helps reduce maintenance costs because native wildflower species need less mowing and care.
Bluebonnets come from a few species of lupines that include the Texas bluebonnet, Lupinus texensis, sandyland bluebonnet, Lupinus subcarnosus, and the Big Bend bluebonnet, Lupinus havardii.
A perennial plant has a growing season and a dormant season, and it can survive through the frost to grow again the next year. Annuals, however, survive for one growing season only. Once they die ...
Lupinus perennis (also wild perennial lupine, wild lupine, sundial lupine, blue lupine, Indian beet, or old maid's bonnets) is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Description
One of the best parts of spring in Texas has to be the bloom of bluebonnets! As spring unfolds across the Lone Star State, here's where to go so you can snap a picture with the state flower.