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AUSTIN - Motorists searching for the best wildflower locations along
Texas highways have help at their fingertips.
The Texas Department of Transportation's wildflower hotline
(800-452-9292) and Internet site (www.dot.state.tx.us) give users information on the best spots to find wildflowers along the 79,000-mile Texas highway system.
The wildflower hotline is active at all times through early May as part of the menu for the road conditions hotline.
To make it easier to find wildflowers in bloom, hotline callers may
request information by seven regions of the state: Big Bend, Gulf Coast, Hill Country, Panhandle, Piney-Woods (East Texas), Prairies and Lakes (North Central Texas), and Southwest Texas.
Information on the hotline and Internet comes from TxDOT's maintenance offices, chambers of commerce, and parks officials.
"There should be an above-average crop of bluebonnets statewide," said Ben Bowers of TxDOT Vegetation Management. "However, it may be early April before many of the blossoms appear."
April is considered the prime month for blooming wildflowers. TxDOT
spreads more than 33,000 pounds of wildflower seeds along Texas highway rights of way each year. Each pound contains 30 or more varieties of wildflowers.
The statewide locater map for wildflower blossoms is available on the TxDOT webpage at www.dot.state.tx.us by going to a section titled Wildflower Season in Bloom. The map features "wildflower-power" sites, marked with colored circles representing wildflower varieties.
The department's wildflower program is part of a vegetation-management program encouraging the growth of native species that require less mowing and care.
from: North Texas e-News (Fannin and nearby counties)
http://www.ntxe-news.com/
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