Bluebonnets for this spring are not growing as large this spring, so this leaves more room for alternative wildflowers to ...

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

The Alamo Fire bluebonnet, originally named the Texas Maroon, symbolizes the culmination of a multidecade initiative.

sightings of red-hued bluebonnets were unheard of — that is, until 2000 when the Texas Maroon bluebonnet was finally introduced. Realizing the absence of red-hued bluebonnets, Parsons and Grant ...

In nature, bluebonnets can ... of landscape horticulture at Texas A&M. "In cultivation, seed lines with various colors of blue-purple, light purple, lavender, and red or red-maroon have been ...

It took about 30 years for a red bluebonnet to be developed by former A&M horticulture specialist Jerry Parsons, said Texas A&M extension horticulturist Larry Stein, who helped develop the hue.