Natural History Wanderings

Texas Wildflower Haven reports

On my last trip to areas (4/11/2015) in the Hill Country the roadside blooms right along the edges of the roads were beyond peak and showing some seedpods.  They were not all with seedpods, but the seedpods were easy to spot. Blooms in fields still looked good and it appeared that some fields had actually filled in more than my previous visit on 4/7/2015.. Some of the field areas closer to the road actually appeared to have new buds. I also saw evidence of other wildflowers getting ready to bloom for the next half of April into May. I did see a few roadsides with greenthread. Right now I still think the sweet spot is still mainly Llano County. However, based on a few other reports there might be some new bluebonnet blooms even in parts of Mason County.  Certainly the reports of prairie paintbrush give me hope that we might see some more variety this season.

See photo at  Hill Country Update – Texas – WildflowerHaven Community.