TEXAS BLUEBONNET

[ Lupinus Texensis ]

Season: Annual
Height: 6-12 Inches
Bloom Season: Spring/Summer
Environment: Full Sun/Well drained calcareous soils
Zones: 3-8
All Regions of North America

Texas Bluebonnet Texas Lupine [ Lupinus Texensis ] is beautiful annual wildflowers. The plant is the state flower of Texas, are very showy drought tolerant annual wildflowers covering thousands of miles of roadside in Texas, a sight worthy of a road trip in late spring. Texas lupine has larger, more sharply pointed leaves and more numerous flower heads than similar lupines.

Texas Bluebonnet Texas Lupine [ Lupinus Texensis ] has light-green, velvety, palmately compound leaves (usually five leaflets) are born from branching, 6-18 inches stems. These stems are topped by clusters of up to 50 fragrant, blue, pea-like flowers. The tip of the cluster is conspicuously white. Seeds may germinate faster after soaking in tepid water for 12 to 24 hours, with germination in about 20 days and begin blooming approximately three months later.

PLANTING

Sow Inside: Winter
Sow Outside: Fall (Southern USA) / Spring (Northern USA)
Seed Depth: 1/8 - 1/4 Inch
Days to Emerge: 15 - 30

TEXAS BLUEBONNET Lupinus Texensis Seeds