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Texas bluebonnet
Texas bluebonnet
Lupinus texensis
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Annual
Size
Small
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate grassland
Range
North America
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Toxins
Status
Common

About

The state flower of Texas, this annual lupine blankets highways and fields in dense blue-and-white spikes each spring. Its five-petaled flowers have a white or purple spot at the top that turns magenta once pollinated, signaling bees to move on to unpollinated blooms.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Lupinus
Species
Lupinus texensis