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| name = ''Lupinus texensis''<br />
| image = Texas Bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis).jpg<br />
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| regnum = [[Plant]]ae<br />
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]<br />
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]<br />
| ordo = [[Fabales]]<br />
| familia = [[Fabaceae]]<br />
| subfamilia = [[Faboideae]]<br />
| tribus = [[Genisteae]]<br />
| genus = ''[[Lupinus]]''<br />
| species = '''''L. texensis'''''<br />
| binomial = ''Lupinus texensis''<br />
| binomial_authority = [[William Jackson Hooker|Hook.]]<br />
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'''''Lupinus texensis''''' (common name '''Texas Bluebonnet''') is a species of [[lupin]]e which is [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] to [[Texas]]. With other related species of lupines also called [[bluebonnet]]s, it is the [[list of U.S. state flowers|state flower]] of Texas.<br />
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It is a [[biennial plant]] which begins its life as a small gravel-like seed. The seed has a hard seed coat that must be penetrated by wind, rain and weather over the course of a few months (but sometimes several years). In the fall the bluebonnets emerge as small seedings with two [[cotyledon]]s, and later a rosette of [[leaf|leaves]] that are palmately compound with 5-7 leaflets 3-6 cm long, green with a faint white edge and hair. Growth continues over the mild winter months and then in the spring will take off and rapidly grow larger before sending up a 20-40 cm tall plume of blue flowers (with bits of white and occasionally a tinge of pinkish-red).<br />
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It has been found in the wild with isolated mutations in other colors, most notably all-white flowers, pink, and maroon. These mutations have since been selectively bred to produce different color strains that are available commercially.<br />
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[[Image:Bluebonnets.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Texas Bluebonnets in bloom]]<br />
[[Image:Texas Bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis) field.jpg|thumb|left|500px|A field of Texas Bluebonnets]]<br />
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==References==<br />
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?315908 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Lupinus texensis'']<br />
*[http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/endemics_map_page2?code=K3062400 Texas Endemics: Distribution of ''Lupinus texensis'']<br />
*[http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio406d/images/pics/fab/lupinus_texensis.htm University of Texas at Austin: ''Lupinus texensis'']<br />
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