The Texas State Flower:
Bluebonnet
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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. This flower has a lot of history and lore surrounding its origins, missionaries in the UK used to take the seeds from the bluebonnets and plant them around their monasteries leading people to believe that they came here in an earlier form of flower delivery UK. It is now know that is a native flower meaning it is as natural to Texas as cowboys and long-horned cattle. 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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