{"id":806,"date":"2015-03-15T02:03:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T02:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2015-03-15T02:03:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T02:03:48","slug":"focus-on-the-backroads-texas-wildflowers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the Backroads:  Texas Wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"pp-lightbox-1426384961\" class=\"pp-lightbox-placeholder pp-gallery-placeholder lightbox-1426384961 mceItem\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/p4\/placeholders\/lightbox-placeholder-1426384961.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Wildflower<\/strong> (noun)&#8230;<em>a flower that grows in natural places without being planted by humans<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a few short weeks the highways and backroads of Texas are going to explode with spectacular color &#8211; it&#8217;s <strong>WILDFLOWER SEASON! \u00a0<\/strong>There are more than 5,000 species of flowering plants that are native to the state of Texas. \u00a0March through May is the prime blooming months throughout Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most popular wildflowers are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bluebonnets, the Texas State Flower<\/strong>: \u00a0Bluebonnets start blooming in the middle of March and usually peak by mid-April.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Texas Paintbrush<\/strong>: these start blooming at the same time as the Bluebonnets usually in the same areas<\/li>\n<li><strong>Indian Blanket<\/strong>: \u00a0these start blooming mid-April through May<\/li>\n<li><strong>Greenthread<\/strong>: \u00a0these bright yellow flowers start blooming in mid-April through June. \u00a0There are billions of flowers throughout the fields creating beautiful seas of yellow flowers<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winecup<\/strong>: \u00a0 these magenta flowers bloom from mid-April through June.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Throughout the state of Texas there are designated driving trails with well marked routes. \u00a0Most are updated weekly on wildflower watch sites. \u00a0If you are ready for a true adventure pack a lunch, water, and of course a camera and hit the backroads! \u00a0Remember to <strong>FOCUS ON THE WILDFLOWERS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WARNING: in many of these area there are rattlesnakes please keep that in mind when taking pictures of children.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also please be careful not to destroy these flowers!<\/p>\n<p><em>Where flowers bloom so does hope&#8230;&#8230;Lady Bird Johnson\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildflower (noun)&#8230;a flower that grows in natural places without being planted by humans In a few short weeks the highways and backroads of Texas are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backroads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/TEXAS-BACKROAD-1-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusonthebackroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}