About the

           BlueBonnets

By:Maddy S.

I wanted to talk about the BlueBonnets because People say they are pretty, and they are. but, the reason why I’m talking about the bluebonnets is that some people don’t know a lot about them.  So, I’m going to tell a few things about them and I will be learning some new things too because I moved here from California. So let’s get started!

So some of you might be asking how did the bluebonnet become the state flower and who found it first?  Well,the when I searched on the internet it said that the American Indians first discovered the bluebonnet and started making tales about the flower.  Also, in the early days the missionaries collected the seeds and started planting them around their monasteries (Mon-as-ter-ys) and a myth that the plant came from Europe.  Also, the bluebonnets were brung up in pre-columbian native American folktales and also there is solid botanical evidence that the bluebonnet is an indigenous (In-dig-e-nous) species.  !!COOL!! Also, adopting a state flower in Texas was not an easy task back in 1901,the elected leaders gathered to chose the state flower and that was first on their agenda.  The previous year the Texas senate passed a revolution with some conflict also in the house the debates were flying fast and crazy over open cotton boll proposed by Phil Clement of Mills,Prickly- Pears Cactus proposed by John Nance Garner of Uvalde AKA Cactus Jack.  Wow,That’s a lot of information and I’m just getting started.  Also, some of the elected leaders were asking questions saying what is a bluebonnet and some of the elected leaders knew the flower as the Wolf flower,Buffalo Clover, or ‘El conejo’ (The Rabbit)now that’s a lot of names!  To add on, there was a lot of confusion in the chamber after mentioning a lot of common names.  At that point a group of women, aka members of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Texas who had originated the idea of naming the Bluebonnet.  So this is probably going to be the last sentence for this article so let’s make it good also the Texas State  Wildflower Day is celebrated every April 24, so I hope I see you there sometime!!

        !Thanks for reading!