According to the university's horticultural department website, professor Jerry Parsons and horticulturist Greg Grant, an alumnus of the class of 1984, were tasked with designing a Texas flag layout .

Texas wildflowers pepper the rolling hills around the state in various shades of white yellow, pink and purple. But there’s ...

Springtime in Texas means one thing — bluebonnets ... While they didn't find any with red tints, they did discover pink bluebonnets with a faint blue hue, which Grant believed resembled maroon ...