Austin Memorial Park Wildflower Meadow 

What's growing out there? 

 

Spring has sprung and the wildflower meadow is blooming!

Check out some of the plants you can find out there now!

 

small green flowers in a cluster surrounded by greenery Green plants with redish brown pod blooms

Antelope Horn
Asclepias asperul

 

Yellow flowers in field

Desert Chicory
Pyrrhopappus carolinianus

 

red flower with yellow tips surrounded by grass 

Firewheel (aka Indian Blanket, Girasol Rojo)
Gaillardia pulchella

 

purple flower with yellow stamens

Giant Spiderwort
Tradescantia gigantea

 

small purple flower on green stalk surrounded by grass

Mock Vervain
Glandularia gooddingii

 

pink flowers with white and yellow center

Pink Evening Primrose
Oenothera speciosa

 

small purple flowers surrounded by grass

Prairie Verbena
Glandularia bipinnatifida

 

Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea

 

red at white flower on green plant

Roadside Gaura

Oenothera suffulta

 

Texas Bluebonnets
Lupinus texensis

 

green plant with yellow flowers

Texas Yellow star
Lindheimera texana

 

Purple-pink flower on green plant

Winecup
Callirhoe involuctrata

 

Pollinators

The blooming flowers are bringing out the pollinators!

 

white butterfly on orange and yellow flower

Checkered White butterfly on Gallardia
Pontia protodice

 

grey butterfly on orange and yellow flower

Gray Hairstreak butterfly on Gallardia
Strymon melinus

 

Fore more information please visit Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center