Texas Wildflower Season Has Begun!

Texas Paintbrush

Castilleja indivisa

Texas boasts a glorious spring wildflower show 

when rainfall has been plentiful

during the preceeding months. 

This year, we have had an unusually

 wet winter, so the flowers should be both

 bountiful and colorful. 

This morning, even though the skies were grey

 and the lighting was miserable, 

I took my camera out to see what I could find. 

One of the flowers that is already

 covering some fields and roadways 

is the peachy, pinky, coral, salmon or red Texas paintbrush. 

Come back often in the next few weeks

 for more Texas wildflower photos. 

I look forward to lots and lots 

of trips around the Texas countryside 

in the days to come!

My Top Picks for the 2014 Spring Wildflowers

Most of these were taken in Guadalupe county, and a couple were taken in Gonzales county. Each season has it's star blooms and blossoms. Spring features the bluebonnet, with a supporting cast of Indian paintbrush, coreopsis, phlox and assorted daisies. Of course, Texans are highly partial to the bluebonnet, but as you can see, there are some other awesome wildflowers to be found during the spring season. 

Close and Personal with Guadalupe County Wildflowers

Henry Duelburg Sage with Coreopsis in background

Coreopsis/Tickweed

Scarlet Guara

White Prickly Poppy

A Smattering of Central Texas Wildflowers

Consider the lilies how they grow: 

they toil not, they spin not;

 and yet I say unto you,

 that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Luke 12:27

Rain Lily with phlox and Indian paintbrush in the background

 Indian paintbrush  with phlox and oxeye daisy in background

Black Swallowtail butterfly on phlox and a couple of rain lilies

Phlox

Texas Vervain and phlox in background

Texas False Dandelion with one pink phlox

Bluebonnets Up Close and Personal

Texans take great pride in the bluebonnet. It blooms in March and April, and is gone by May, but Ooooooh, while it is in bloom, we celebrate. There are bluebonnet photo contests, and lots and lots of folks stopping to wade through roadside blankets of blue to take pictures of their children sitting in the patches of flowers. 

I am just like so many other Texans with a camera in my hand, down on my knees to get as close as possible to the beauteous blue blooms. Here are a few shots to prove it!

Bluebonnets, Phlox and Yellow Englemann's Daisy