Experts say fall is the key season for planting the famous Texas flowers - and it's not as difficult as you may think.

It may not technically be spring yet, but West Texas is already buzzing with the first sighting of bluebonnet flowers in Big Bend National Park. “Blooms were first spotted in mid-February and are ...

The Texas state flower blooms in the springtime, popping up seemingly overnight along roadways or in yards across the state.

Many animals, including humans, are one sex, either male or female. Most flowering plants have both male and female reproductive structures, not only on the same plant, but often in the same flower.

As surely as it's Eastertime so is the Texas wildflower season upon us, heralded by the tentative arrival of flowering bluebonnets. Depending on where you live in the state, you're either in the midst ...

Jae S. Lee / Staff Photographer As it continues to warm up outside, we're leaving those winter blues behind and trading them for every Texan's favorite shade of blue, that of our state wildflower.

Can't get enough of the state flower? Then it's worth the drive 30 miles south of Dallas on Interstate 45 to Ellis County. Ennis the "Official Bluebonnet City" of Texas is home to some of the best and ...

Did a Texas A&M fan pull a prank that's could engulf the Texas campus in Austin, Texas? It's a question many are asking after maroon-colored bluebonnet flowers are popping up around the University of ...

"I think we're going to have a fairly decent season because we did have fairly good germination in most locations last year in the fall and fairly good early growing conditions," Arnold told Chron.

kanonsky / iStockphoto A 1942 ad welcoming everyone to the popular Bluebonnet Photo Fiesta from The Dallas Morning News archives. Editor's note: Take a look back into The Dallas Morning News archives.