Texas has 5 state bluebonnet flowers
BY JERRY M. PARSONS, STEVE GEORGE, GREG GRANT
      As the state flower, bluebonnets have a most interesting history. Texas actually has five state flowers, more or less, and they are all bluebonnets. Here is how it happened. In the spring of 1901, the Texas Legislature got down to the serious business of selecting a state floral emblem and the ensuing battle was hot and heavy.
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Be careful picking flowers
      Springtime brings flowers to fields and roadsides and a question to the minds of nature lovers is it really illegal to pick bluebonnets? The answer is no there is no law against picking our state flower. However, there are laws against criminal trespass, so make sure you're not on private property when you stop to take your annual kids-in-the-bluebonnets photo.
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