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Evening pleasure
- Yellow evening primrose
- Oenothera missouriensis
- blooms April to June
- blossoms open only in the evening
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- Fragrant Mimosa
- Mimosa borealis
- blooms April to July
- fragrant
- 4 - 6 feet shrub
- Deciduous
- soil well drained
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Beauty of Texas
- Indian Blanket
- Gaillardia pulchella
- blooms April to June
- 4 - 12 inch high
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- Puccoon
- Lithospermum incisum
- blooms March to May
- all soils
- Perennial
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- Tropical Sage
- Salvia coccinea
- blooms February to October
- 6 to 30 inches tall
- Perennial
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- Bladderpod
- Lesquerella Fendleri
- blooms March - May at Nature Preserve
- 8 - 10 inch high
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- Navajo Tea
- Thelesperma simplicifolium
- bloom May to November
- Perennial
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- Scarlet Penstemon
- Penstemon triflorus
- blossoms show April to May
- Perennial
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- Blackfoot Daisy
- Melampodium leucanthum
- blooms March to November
- 4 - 10 inch high
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- Indian Blanket
- or Fire-wheel
- Gaillardia pulchella
- 5 - 10 inch
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* A bright variety *
* cacti + wild flowers
* 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 - blooms 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 300 of them
- red trunk
- white or pink flowers
- up to 40 ft high
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- Mexican Plum
- Prunus mexicana
- blooms February to March
- fragrant blossoms
- bees love it
- white flowers
- tree up to 20 ft high
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- Mexican Buckeye
- Ungnadia speciosa
- blooms February to March,
- fragrant pink blossom
- well drainded soil needed
- shrub up to 25 ft high
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Vacation in Texas
- Twisted leaf Yucca
- Yucca rupicola
- blooms April to June
- 1 ft to 2 ft high
- flower-stem up to 7 ft
- the deer love this flower
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