Austin – It is a spring in the center of Texas, which means that these beautiful wild flowers are starting to open. Although the first thought of each Texas is the search for Bluebonnets, there are other wild flowers that may open in places that Bluebonnets does not do.
Hana Armstrong, the gardens at the Texas Wild Flowers Center, said that Bluebonnets for this spring does not grow in this spring, so this leaves more room for alternative wild flowers to open. Armstrong said that the group of times of Bluebonnets is not as delicious as it was in the past seasons, which is scheduled to be dry during the fall.
She said: “Therefore, because they grow early in the fall, when we were in drought and we had a kind of intermittent rain, they did not get their size.” “Many of these seedlings have been affected, and those that made it no, perhaps anxiety as it was in previous years.”
Although Bluebonnets is close and dear to the hearts of Texas, there is a beauty that can be seen in other wild flowers that can bear dry dryness or delayed from flowers and will appear in the summer.
Armstrong said: “Some of those who later grow that we have just started seeing a popup now and will continue to flown throughout the early summer, and they got a much more space to germinate with those most consistent rains in the winter, so they may have a more powerful year than Bluebonnets,” Armstrong said.
Mexican hat
Mexican hats are famous for their shapes that contain “Somberoro -shaped flowers”, according to the Wildflower Center.
“The flowers of flowers range from red and dark yellow to all in red or yellow,” the website said.
Armstrong said the Mexican hat “can take a lot of neglect and drought.”
The flower is perennial, which is plant or plant species that has a normal life cycle that exceeds two years, according to Wildflower.
The flower cash can be used to treat headaches. Armstrong said it was also used as snake and poisoning.
Pink Evening Protective Flower
Pink Eventing Primrose (Onothera Speciosa) contains “large flowers and four value”, according to Wildflower Center. The plant is classified as perennial and flowers can range from dark pink to white.
The website said: “Microlers flowers are in the form of a cup lined with pink or red veins. The foliage is usually linear and Pinnate, although the leaves can be complete and form according to the site.”
Armstrong said every flower only lasts. In addition, this flower is the larvae host for Sphinx White Line. This means that the insect can lay eggs on this flower.
The Wildflower Center said that the benefits of this flower include its use as a food “to cook vegetables or in salads.”
Firewheel
Anderson said Firewheel (Gaillardia Pulchella) blooms in the summer. Wild flowers are classified as annual, which means that it is a type that grows from seeds, flowers and fruits and dies within one year, according to the Wildflower Center.
“Usually the hairy trunk is very full and becomes a wooden in the base late this season. The branching stems, most of which are exaggerated near the base, have cheerful flower heads with red radiation at the base, tend to yellow, and each has 3 teeth at the end of the petition,” said Wales Wales on the Internet.
According to the Wildflower Center, flowers have a red center and a yellow external band. However, “some of the flowers are completely yellow.”
Armstrong said that al -Hamid is used medically in tea for gastroenteritis. Digestiveitis is stomach flu. The wild flower center said another benefit is that the factory can be used for pain.
Texas Indian paint brush
Armstrong said that the Indian Texas for Indian Castleja Indivisa is a prestige of blood, which means that it pulls other nutrients from other plants. She said that the colored flower is technically, or modified leaves. This flower is classified as annual, according to the Wildflower Center.
“The flowers are less clear than the teller and green at the base, it is a translation through its cheerful two battles, and it is usually red. They sometimes produce a light white or pure white contrast,” said Wildflower on the Internet.
Birds of the tanner and insects use the nectar of this flower, according to the Wild Venus Center.
Winecup
Winecup (Callirhoe Inncucrata) is “a hard pink to purple color,” according to the Wildflower Center. Armstrong said he was perennial.
Armstrong said these flowers are also known for their medical purposes. According to the Wildflower Center, the medical benefits include the use of “dried dried roots” to inhale the colds in the head. In addition, the flower roots can be boiled and used to drink tea for pain.
Moreover, Armstrong said that the flower is the host of the larvae of Gray Hairstreak, a well -known butterfly consuming food plants.
How to grow blue properly, other wild flowers
While Texas is waiting for Bluebonnets to open in the spring, Armstrong said it is important to discuss how they planted them in the fall.
“I think there is one thing that people should also take into account when they plant Bluebonnets, or are enthusiastic about Bluebonnets, it is what comes after that,” she said.
Bluebonnets is an annual factory that requires full flowers in the spring. Those who want to plant them should find herbs that will provide room for Bluebonnets. Then, there Preparing the soilKnowing when to plant them and their seeds, according to Wildflower.
“So when Bluebonnet is finished and went to the seeds, what will be there in the summer? What can you provide pollinators? So not only this nude land,” said Armstrong.
The wild flower center said that the seeds are when the seeds are “in good contact with the soil.”
The wild flower center said: “Touncing the soil helps the seeds to maintain moisture, which is necessary for germination and provides a pillar for seedlings growth.”
For more information on how to grow wild flower meadow, Visit the Wild Flore Center A website.