The wildflflowers that dot the Ray Roberts Lake State Park system aren’t there purely by accident or nature.
Members of the park system staff actively work to help the wildflflower population flourish throughout the different park units to help visitors have a look at the flowers native to the area.
“Our dream is to be … a wildflflower destination,” Johnson Branch Unit Assistant Superintendent Scott Eager said.
Flowers bloom year-round at the park, helping pollinators find sources of food outside of the plentiful months.
Many of the same varieties can be found across the park, including in pocket prairies, “where we’re doing a lot of invasive species removal,” Isle du Bois Unit Superintendent Mark Stewart said.
“[That’s] so that people can kind of see what some of this area looked like 100 years ago, 200 years ago, when settlers were coming through the area,” Stewart said.
Eager also gave a warning to people searching through tall grass for the blossoms to check for insect and arachnid bites.
See which of the flowers on this page you can find at the park.
