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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 *
Guillardia

Beauty of Texas

- Indian Blanket
- Gaillardia pulchella
- blooms April to June
- 4 - 12 inch high

Bladderpot

Vacation in Texas

- Bladderpod
- Lesquerella Fendleri
- blooms March - May
- 8 - 10 inch high

Blackf.Daisy

- Blackfoot Daisy
- Melampodium leucanthum
- blooms March to November
- 4 - 10 inch high

Ind.Blanket

- Indian Blanket
- or Firewheel
- Gaillardia pulchella
- 5 - 10 inch
hummingbird

Hummingbird
in Texas
Hummingbird = Kolibri
its wings beat so fast
you hear
a loud hum


Claret cup

Native plants in Texas

- Claret Cup
- Echinocereus triglochidiatus
- blooms April to May
- 4 - 9 inch high

Butterfly

Maximilian Sunflower
- helianthus maximiliani
- blooms August to October
- 3 - 12 ft high

longhorn


- The famous Texas Longhorn

- oh boy, best steaks in the world !!
(because of all the
beautiful Texas wildflowers)
longhorn



Excuse me -
NO wildflower, but as famous as
Texas wildflowers

- Texas Longhorn

May all your weeds be wildflowers ...



Claret cup
* hedgehog-Cacti *


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

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* A bright variety *
* look close - *
* something is always blooming *

horsecrippler





- Horse-Crippler
- Echinocactus texensis
- known as Devils Head
- got his name, because
- when a horse steps on it
- it got crippled
- blooms April - May

Texas friendly spoken here
- wild Cacti - blue blooming Wild-Lupines

Alphabetical Wildflower-list of
Bear Springs Blossom - Nature Trail
with Photos


Blue Bonnet

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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BlueBonnet





- Texas Bluebonnet meadow
- Lupinus texensis
- blooms March to April
- white, blue
- violet
- 4 - 12 inch high

- Texas State-Flower

sun

Native to Texas

- Texas Bluebonnet
- Lupinus texensis
- together with other
- Wildflowers

MtnLaurel

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

Agarita


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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Redbud
Redbud
Redbud


Beauty in Spring

- Redbud
- Cercis canadensis
- blloooms February
- leaves come after the bloom
- 3 varieties
- Eastern-, Texas-
>-- Mexican Redbud
- up to 45 ft high



Madrone
Madrone
Madrone

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 160 of them
- red trunk
- white or pink flowers
- up tp 40 ft high



Monarch

Wildlife in Texas

- Monarch
- butterfly

- What would the flowers do
- without the butterflies ? ..

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twistYucca

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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Sun





Sun
Vacation in Texas




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