Two takes on a certain floral twosome

 

Bluebonnets tend to form monocolonies. They’re impressive, as you’ve been seeing, yet it’s nice to have a mixture of wildflower colors. Above, near Bastrop on March 19th some phlox (Phlox drummondii) offered a contrasting color to a colony of sandyland bluebonnets (Lupinus subcarnosus). Notice the small mounds made of the sand that gives sandyland bluebonnets the first part of their common name. Below, I’d found the same pairing on March 13th at the McKeller Cemetery in Gonzales. The little white flowers dotting the background are lazy daisies (Aphanostephus sp.).

 

 

© 2023 Steven Schwartzman

 

 

 

A huge bluebonnet colony

 

At the intersection of Watterson Rd, and FM 535 in rural Bastrop County on March 19th
we contemplated a field-filling colony of Texas bluebonnets (Lupinus texensis).

 

 

© 2023 Steven Schwartzman