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Blue Texas Wildflowers

Baby Blue Eyes, Mayfield Nature Preserve, Menzies baby blue eyes, Nemophila menziesii, Nemophila menziesii Hook & Arn

Baby Blue Eyes

Baby Blue Eyes is a small, trailing annual, 6 in. tall and 1 ft. wide, Menzies baby-blue-eyes is well-known for its bright-blue, five-petaled, bowl-shaped flowers with white centers.

Big Bend National Park, Focus Stacking, Grapevine Hills Trail, Texas Wildflowers

Big Bend Bluebonnet

The Big Bend Bluebonnet grows taller than most bluebonnets. The flowers of this annual are very deep blue with a lemon blotch.

Celestial Lilly, Celestials, Nemastylis Geminiflora

Celestial Lily

The sky-blue flowers open in the late morning and curl up before 3 in the afternoon, even on overcast days.

McKinney Falls State Park

False Dayflower

The False Dayflower is an erect annual native to central Texas with flowers made up of two large lavender-blue petals and one small white petal.

Focus Stacking, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Mealy Blue Sage, Salvia Farinacea

Mealy Blue Sage

Mealy Blue Sage is a 2-3 ft. upright or sprawling perennial, that usually forms a mound as wide as the plant is tall and is named for the mealy-white appearance of the sepals.

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Texas Bluebonnet

Texas Bluebonnet

These stems of the Texas Bluebonnet are topped by clusters of up to 50 fragrant, blue, pea-like flowers. The tip of the cluster is white.

Focus Stacking, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Texas Gayfeather, Texas Wildflowers

Texas Gayfeather

The purple Texas Gafeather flowers are densely congested in a long spike on the upper part of the stem. The leaves are narrow and crowded.