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The Coordinated Educational and Marketing Assistance Program identifies outstanding landscape plants for Texas and provides support for the nursery industry, thereby making superior plants available to Texans. CEMAP funding comes directly from industry and from consumers through the sale of plant tags bearing the Texas Superstar logo. Additionally, the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association and Texas Department of Agriculture is conducting a Texas Superstar publicity campaign. An estimated $10 million in new plant sales have been generated during the first 10 years of this program. Because plants are chosen based on their performance under minimal input conditions, Texas SuperStars greatly reduce their impact on the urban environment.

Additional index words. bedding plant, flower color, lupine, ornamentals breeding Bluebonnet-designated by the state legmost widespread bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis) islature as all six of the Lupinus species native is a winter annual that produces predominately to Texas-is the state flower of Texas. The violet-blue (violet-blue group 96A) (Royal Horticultural Society, 1982) flower spikes in

Additional index words. bedding plant, flower color, lupine, ornamentals breeding one month after anthesis, are densely pubescent, and contain four to seven seeds each. Weight per 100 seeds is ≈3.5 g. Seeds are light brown, occasionally speckled with black.

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