Andrea DeLong-Amaya, the horticulture director at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, tells the Dallas Morning News that this spring should bring a showcase of the state wildflower, with large patches of bluebonnets filling prairies and lining Texas roads.
DeLong-Amaya predicts that this spring's bluebonnet crop will rival that of 2007, and credits the two-year drought that killed off grasses and other plants, leaving more room for wildflowers to spread. Paired with a particularly wet fall and winter that helped the seeds germinate, all the conditions were right for the flowers.
Wildflower Center officials have already spotted clusters of bluebonnets ready to flower near Brenham, and along roads between Marble Falls and Llano. Bluebonnet season will peak around late March in Central Texas.
The bluebonnets were named the state flower in 1901.
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