Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Purple ), 2 by StillPlaysWDirt

StillPlaysWDirt wrote:
Another of the same genus Pediomelum (This may be a synonym for psoralea.. anyone?), this one in particular being Pediomelum cuspidatum; Indian-Turnip aka Largebract Indian breadroot aka Tall scurfy pea.

I had to pull over when I saw these purple flowers growing alongside a road I travel very often.. This is the first time I have ever seen it during the last 4 1/2 years of living here, and it seems to be the only one around, as far as I've seen.

It grows in a small colony of 3 or 4 plants among many other wildflowers, including indian paintbrush, engelmann daisy, and purple prairie verbena (which I almost mistook it for at first glance). I really like this one.. it has a similar look to a bluebonnet, but this plant, ONE plant had a spread of almost 4 feet and just bursting with these pops of purple! I hope to see it set seed so I can introduce it to my home 'wildscape'.