Texas is famous for its spring wildflower season. It starts in the south in March and progresses northward as the weather warms. Here in northeastern Texas, the season usually arrives in April with flowers peaking around the middle of April.
This spring has been warmer than normal (if normal is even a thing anymore, due to climate change) and the wildflowers began to show up in late March and peaked well before the middle of April.
Some years, my schedule causes me to miss the best portion of the wildflower season here, but this year, I took time to get out on several occasions to view and photograph the wildflowers.
The Bluebonnet is the Texas state wildflower and these abound in the spring in fields and along highway medians and borders. There are many other wildflower varieties, with the Indian Paintbrush, being maybe the second most prevalent in many locations. I’m more partial to the paintbrush for its color and shape. So even in masses of bluebonnets, I am drawn to the paintbrush.
The mass of tall yellow wildflowers (mostly cropped out of this image) at the top of the image above is an invasive Mediterranean species that is threatening to crowd out native wildflowers.
More Texas Wildflowers next,
Ken
Beautiful flowers! I just noticed some lupine and paintbrush starting to bloom down the road from us. I like the meadow images best here … they look nice and sharp!
Thanks, Denise. We have near constant wind on the Texas plains and shooting wildflowers is always a challenge for getting sharp images. I’m guessing you might be able to get to some of the mountain meadows in your area within the next month. Those meadows filled with wildflowers with mountains in the background are wonderful to behold.