April 2013 - Thunder Roads Texas Motorcycle Magazine

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RIDE MAP Article by Shelly Horan, TRT Editor/Owner Photo courtesy of Anet Noska... thanks Anet! that time of year – wildflowers are abundant! And of course, this includes the Texas State Flower – the bluebonnet. Yep, we’re going bluebonnet hunting! “The bluebonnet is to Texas what the shamrock is to Ireland, the cherry blossom to Japan, the lily to France, the rose to England, and the tulip to Holland.” ~Jack Maguire, historian Did you know Texas has more than one state flower? At the turn of the 20th It’s Century, the Texas Legislature put aside their normal politics and debated the choices for state flower. The choices: 1) the prickly pear for the durability of the plant and the orchid like beauty of its flower; 2) the cotton boll, since cotton was king in Texas in the day; and 3) the bluebonnet. As you well know, proponents of the bluebonnet won the debate! The original species adopted in 1901 was the Lupinus subcarnosus. However, that wasn’t the end of the story… seems there is more than one species of bluebonnets gracing the hills and plains of Texas. Some thought the Lupinus subcarnosus was the least attractive bluebonnet and wanted to change the state flower to the Lupinus texensis, which is more a vibrant blue and in more abundance than the official flower first adopted. The debate raged for about 70 years and in 1971, the Legislature amended the state flower to include “any other variety of bluebonnet not heretofore recorded,” thus lumping all types of bluebonnets under the state flower. At the time, they had no idea that there were four more identifiable bluebonnet species. Remember, we’re in Texas – and everything is bigger in Texas… so we have six state flowers! For the horticulturists in our mix, the complete list (as we know it now) is the Lupinus subcarnosus, L. texensis, L. havardii, L. concinnus, L. perennis, and L. plattensis. So, we head out on the hunt for bluebonnets and places in Texas that celebrate this native flower. There are four bluebonnet affiliated “capitals” of Texas – Ennis, “Bluebonnet City”; Chappel Hill, home of the “Official Texas Bluebonnet Festival”; Llano County, “Bluebonnet Co-Capital of Texas”; and Burnet County, the “Bluebonnet Co-Capital of Texas”. Three are close enough for a weekend route, so away we go! Continued on Page 18... Page 16 H April 2013 ThunderRoadsTexas.com
Texas-based, Texas-focused, Texas PROUD! “The bluebonnet is to Texas what the shamrock is to Ireland, the cherry blossom to Japan, the lily to France, the rose to England, and the tulip to Holland.” ~historian, Jack Maguire, April 2013 H Page 17 RIDE MAP
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