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Cemetery iris, Cedar Hill State Park, Cedar Hill, Dallas County, March 2017
First used in North Africa as a decoration on gravesites, from there to Spain, and finally to the New World. It's a species cross that is unable to make seeds on its own, but spreads by being passed from hand to hand. You will often see it blooming where once a house stood, and it's able to survive unaided in pastures along the roadside, often half-buried in tall grasses and other wild flowers. (Texas Cooperative Extension,
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas)