Dear Dr. Jim
I have this pretty flower growing 'wild' beside my driveway. I looked it up in my plant book and found it to be a 'Lupine'.
My friend from Texas told me that this was all wrong, that is a Texas Bluebonnet.
Dr. Jim, since you are from Texas I thought I would let you decide for us what my flower really is.
Thank you for helping,
California Girl
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Dear California Girl
It's soooo pretty, C Girl. For sure it is a keeper. I would have called it one of OUR Texas Bluebonnets also.
But it can't be because you live in California So I asked "Yahoo answers" if there was a difference (link). They satisfied me with this answer:
"Best Answer: The Texas Bluebonnet is Lupinus texensis, so it is a type of Lupine. The species is native to Texas. (There are actually several species of bluebonnet, but L. texensis is generally "the" Texas Bluebonnet). "
Which means yours probably is NOT a Texas Bluebonnet but rather it is another species of Lupines.
Hope this helps, Dr. Jim
Oh yes, I am not 'from' Texas, I am 'from' Nebraska. But I got here, to Texas, as fast as I could. And now I have lived here for years and years, more years probably than you have lived.
And BTW, collect some seeds from it as you will need to reseed this plant every year. ~~ Thanks as always for asking, Dr. Jim
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3 comments:
Hi, Dr. Jim! Thank you for coming to my blog today. Long time no interact.
I would have called it a bluebonnet too because I lived in Texas for a lot of years. Also, surprise, surprise, I lived in Nebraska at the time my oldest son was born (early 1960s) because I was stationed at Strategic Air Command Headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base outside Omaha (Bellevue, to be exact).
So we have two things in common.
Putz (David Barlow of Tooele, Utah) has not put up a post in over two years because his wife, Karmalee, didn't like for him to. I miss him. He could be a hoot and exasperating at the same time (unlike my own sweet, semi-magnificent self).
This is getting too long so I will stop. Don't you stop.
I seem to have told a falsehood. I checked to make sure, and it is just over one year ago that Putz stopped posting, not two. A thousand pardons.
This is very helpful if people can get answers to their questions.
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