Bluebonnet Season in Texas

Bluebonnets are the Texas State Flower and this is the season in which they are in full bloom... Their prime flowering days are just a few days away, but the above picture taken this morning in McKinney shows the potential...

There are Bluebonnet Sightings Tracking websites to help one find magnificent fields of these blue wildflowers in various Texas cities, but the picture above was taken less than a mile from our home

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The specific name of this special variety of the Lupinus family is Lupinus Texensis... but there are many other Bluebonnet variants and of course many more Lupine flower varieties.

Want to know the State Flowers of other US states ? Take a look at this Wikipedia State Flower Overview.

And for those of you with access to Jonas' Website... go and take a look as of course we also took some pictures of Jonas in the Blue Fields of Texas !