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COPYRIGHT 2001 Texas Monthly, Inc.
Texas' favorite wildflowers and exactly where to see them.
When the first tuffs of blue appear along the highways and back roads, Texans gear up for their favorite springtime spectator sport: wildflower watching. Although actually seeing the flowers is the best part--like opening Christmas presents--there are satisfying related rituals. First you dig out the camera. If you're compulsive about knowing what you're seeing, you haunt bookstores for the perfect field guide. Then you consult newspapers for the season's best trails. At last, some Saturday morning, you pile into the car and go--hoping that along the way you'll happen upon a secret meadow of the most breathtaking flowers ever or, almost as good, the ultimate smoke-filled barbecue joint. To help your search, here is a sampler of our favorite flowers and where to see them. (For up-to-the-minute information, call the excellent statewide hotline operated by the Texas Department of Transportation, mid-March through mid-May, 800-452-9292 or 512-832-7125.)
BLUEBONNET
Texas has six state flowers, all of them bluebonnets. And if any more species of bluebonnets are found in the future, they get to be state flowers too. It all began in 1901, when the bluebonnet narrowly beat out the cotton boll and...
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