After the bluebonnet, also known as the “buffalo clover,” was declared the state flower by the Texas Legislature in 1901, a ...

The flower’s colorful heads grow from long, dark green stems that can reach around 19 inches in height. This daisy’s soft ...

Texas bluebonnet: tube-shaped stem with purply-blue flower heads that cluster at the top. Texas Indian paintbrush: red, paintbrush-shaped petals. Firewheel: red centers with yellow outer petal edges.