General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Dry Mesic
Dry
Plant Height: 4-6 inch
Plant Spread: 4 inch
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Red
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic
Dynamic Accumulator: Nitrogen fixer
P (Phosphorus)
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Propagation: Seeds: Scarify seeds: and soak overnight or crack seedcoat. Add Rhizobium
Depth to plant seed: cover the seeds thin
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: sow in fall
Pollinators: Bumblebees

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Common names
  • Red Texas Bluebonnet

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Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2010-08-22

Alamo Fire is the red ones in the foreground
Location: my garden 
Date: 2013-03-23
Plant Events from our members
piksihk On January 29, 2022 Seeds sown
from old seed pkg that was purchased from Lady Bird J.
piksihk On January 29, 2022 Transplanted
only one seedling came up;
piksihk On January 8, 2019 Seeds sown
WG fry bed
piksihk On January 19, 2016 Seeds sown
added seeds- clipped and soaked; front bed
piksihk On November 22, 2014 Seeds sown
front bed;
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