Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Pink ), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Texas Bluebonnet, ( Lupinus texensis ) Legume family, ( Fabaceae ) Annual, native plant endemic to Texas, bloom period, March---May.The state flower of Texas.

For the first time in my life (60 years), I have seen pink bluebonnets growing in a native environment. I found 2 plants today in a field in Northwest San Antonio. These are very rarely found occurring naturally. According to Texas A&M University, "In the wild it occurs only once in every ten million bluebonnets. And the chance of finding a pink bluebonnet, well it’s one in a hundred million." I hit the jackpot finding 2 plants. :o) There is an 'Abbott Pink' cultivar that has been developed through selective breeding.

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/754/index.html

A bloom cluster of a pink blooming specimen (observed in northwest Bexar County, Texas):