A few central Texas wildflower bulbs
Lee Poulsen (Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:48:46 PDT)

Last week we went to Austin, Texas to visit my family and my wife
wanted to visit Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center since this is the
season when much of Texas bursts into an incredible display of
wildflowers almost everywhere you look. Among other flowers, I took
some photos of Hymenocallis liriosme and Iris virginica var. shrevei
and put them on the wiki.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Our last night there we went to eat dinner at the home of a longtime
friend of mine who has moved out into the Hill Country of Central
Texas. We got there before sunset and were out in their "backyard" when
I noticed a beautiful blue flower here and there, mostly near or under
the live oaks dotting his property. I tried to take some pictures, but
most of them were blurry due to the diminishing light (and my own
difficulty taking close-ups with a digital camera). Also, the flowers
were starting to shrivel up. In all my years growing up and living
there, I had never seen this flower, nor have I seen it in any of the
bulb galleries. I know it is a bulbs because I got my friend's
permission to dig up a couple. (He recognized it as the purple bulb he
kept digging up when he prepared the beds for his vegetable garden. He
also dug up a lot of larger native rainlily bulbs at the same time.)
Mary Sue has looked in her few books on the area and has tentatively
identified it as one of the Nemastylis species. I uploaded a few photos
to the Mystery Bulbs page.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10