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* Texas Hill Country - Flowers - Trees *
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Welcome to
Wildflowers of
* Bear Springs Blossom Nature Conservation *
* Texas-Hill-Country *
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Beauty of Texas
- Indian Blanket
- Gaillardia pulchella
- blooms April to June
- 4 - 12 inch high
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| Vacation in Texas
- Bladderpod
- Lesquerella Fendleri
- blooms March - May
- 8 - 10 inch high
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- Blackfoot Daisy
- Melampodium leucanthum
- blooms March to November
- 4 - 10 inch high
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- Indian Blanket
- or Firewheel
- Gaillardia pulchella
- 5 - 10 inch
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Hummingbird
in Texas
Hummingbird = Kolibri
its wings beat so fast
you hear
a loud hum
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| Native plants in Texas
- Claret Cup
- Echinocereus triglochidiatus
- blooms April to May
- 4 - 9 inch high
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Maximilian Sunflower
- helianthus maximiliani
- blooms August to October
- 3 - 12 ft high
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- The famous Texas Longhorn
- oh boy, best steaks in the world !!
(because of all the
beautiful Texas wildflowers)
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Excuse me -
NO wildflower, but as famous as
Texas wildflowers
- Texas Longhorn
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May all your weeds be wildflowers ...
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* hedgehog-Cacti *
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Beautiful colors, a lot of thorns
red, yellow, lilac, white
small to huge
most of the time limestone
and a lot of rocks ...
a few drops of rain
rain amount 1999 12 inch
No, not a month,
the hole year
rain amount in 2002 50 inches
NO, not in a year
in 5 days
Want to know more ?
Please send us an email
bearspringsblossom@yahoo.com
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* A bright variety *
* look close - *
* something is always blooming *
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- Horse-Crippler
- Echinocactus texensis
- known as Devils Head
- got his name, because
- when a horse steps on it
- it got crippled
- blooms April - May
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Vacation in Texas
- Texas Bluebonnet
- Lupinus texensis
- blooms March to April
- 4 - 12 inch high
- The Texas Bluebonnet is
- the State flower of Texas
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- Texas Bluebonnet meadow
- Lupinus texensis
- blooms March to April
- white, blue
- violet
- 4 - 12 inch high
- Texas State-Flower
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Native to Texas
- Texas Bluebonnet
- Lupinus texensis
- together with other
- Wildflowers
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Vacation in Texas
- Mountain Laurel
- Sophora secundiflora
- evergreen
- blooms
- white, blue to violet
- strong good fragrance
- blooms March to April
- up to 20 ft high
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Vacation in Texas
- Agarita
- Berberis trifoliolata
- blooms February
- evergreen
- good fragrance
- 1 - 10 ft high
- you can make a good
- jelly out of the berries
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Beauty in Spring
- Redbud
- Cercis canadensis
- blloooms February
- leaves come after the bloom
- 3 varieties
- Eastern-, Texas-
>-- Mexican Redbud
- up to 45 ft high
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Very special to the TX Hill Country
- Madrone /Madrona
- or Naked Indian
- or Indian Lady's Leg
- Arbutus xalapensis
- blooms February to March,
- evergreen
- very rare, but we have over 150 of them
- red trunk
- white or pink flowers
- up tp 40 ft high
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Wildlife in Texas
- Monarch
- butterfly
- What could the flowers do
- without the butterflies ? ..
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Vacation in Texas
- Twisted leaf Yucca
- Yucca rupicola
- blooms April to June
- 30 - 60 cm high
- flowerstem up to 7 ft
- the deer love this flower
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Be friendly - friendly as a Texan
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