Today is day 22 of #30DaysWild I was with my humans in the #mountains and during our #hedgewatch we saw beautiful #landscapes and wonderful #flowers Look the blue #Gentian isn't it wonderful

Visiting a friend in Winnipeg. We went out to Beaudry Provincial Park, west of the city, where there is some very interesting tall grass prairie being restored. One of the flowers, new to me, was closed gentian. Magnificent.

Some of the beautiful wild flowers that lined the sides of streams that were gushing with the spring snow melt from the high Sierra Nevada. Height approx 2300-2500m. Wildflower names in description/alt text

Spring Gentian (Gentiana sierrae). Endemic to Spain's Sierra Nevada grows between 1800m and 3200m. Lucky enough to see loads of these beautiful flowers today in a high valley at 2300m

Closed (aka Bottle) Gentian (Gentiana andrewsii). Manitoba, Canada. #BloomScrolling #gentian #wildflowers #FloraOfManitoba

Gentian in the front yard top terrace Encrusted saxifrage getting ready to bloom soon next to it.

OK who can solve the mystery of the Texas Bluebonnet. There are two distinct flowers each in a different genus and family that are called Texas Bluebonnet. One is in the genus Lupinus, the other in Gentiana. They look totally different but both have intense blue flowers. The Texas state flower looks to be the one in the Lupine genus. Why is the other also named Texas Bluebonnet?
#Flowers #Wildflowers #Texas #BlueBonnet #Lupin #Gentian