Newsflash: bluebonnets are lupines

[Amy Z]

I know the suspense was killing you all, so I thought I'd post that 
Texas bluebonnets are a species, or rather a few species, of lupine.  
And I can see why the songwriter raved about them, because they are an 
incredible deep blue such as you seldom see in flowers; the lupines 
I've seen are a paler, more common blue.  It wasn't just Regional 
Pride Gone Overboard, not that Texans are =ever= guilty of such a 
thing. . .

;-)
Amy