Texas Wildflower Seed Mix – Fall-Sown Annual & Perennial Blend for Spring Color, Full Sun & Poor Soil, Attracts Bees & Butterflies

Minimum: 250+ Seeds

Texas Wildflower Seed Mix — A 24-Variety Blend for Lone Star Gardens

Texas stretches from Panhandle cold to Gulf Coast humidity, and its spring wildflower season is one of the great garden shows in the country. This blend brings that look home with 24 varieties, from lupine spikes and poppies in spring to coreopsis, coneflower, and cosmos carrying color into summer. At 70 percent annual and 30 percent perennial, it's built for pollinators, full sun, and the kind of ground that rewards plants with some grit.

Who Plants Texas Wildflower Seed Mix?
The Texas gardener wanting spring-to-summer color from one planting.
The pollinator gardener building habitat for bees and butterflies.
The landowner seeding a sunny field, slope, or roadside.

What This 24-Variety Wildflower Blend Actually Is
This mix combines annuals and perennials selected to flower at different times, pairing cool-season spring bloomers with warm-season summer bloomers. It includes species native to Texas and the central US, such as black-eyed Susan, plains coreopsis, lance-leaf coreopsis, and Drummond's phlox, alongside well-loved garden annuals.

• Cornflowers and poppies: Dwarf Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus dwf), Tall Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), Red Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas), Shirley Poppy (Papaver rhoeas), Orange California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica).
• Cosmos and daisies: Sensation Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus), Sulphur Cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus), Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), Gloriosa Daisy (Rudbeckia hirta var. gloriosa), African Daisy (Dimorphotheca sinuata).
• Coreopsis and blanket flower: Plains Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria), Lance-Leaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata), Blanket Flower (Gaillardia aristata).
• Coneflower, lupines, and flax: Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), Russell Lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus), Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis), Arroyo Lupine (Lupinus succulentus), Blue Flax (Linum lewisii), Scarlet Flax (Linum grandiflorum).
• Fast fillers: Red Annual Phlox (Phlox drummondii), Birds Eyes (Gilia tricolor), Mixed Clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata), Chinese Houses (Collinsia heterophylla), Siberian Wallflower (Erysimum × allionii).

In the Garden & Meadow

• Pollinator habitat: Let the staggered blooms feed bees and butterflies from spring into summer.
• Cut flowers: Cut cosmos, cornflowers, and coreopsis for informal bouquets.
• Fields and roadsides: Seed large, sunny areas for low-input color.
• Self-seeding: Leave seed heads in place so annuals return next season.

Planting Texas Wildflower Seed Mix

• Start method: Broadcast onto cleared, weed-free soil and press in; do not bury, since many seeds need light.
• Timing: Sow in fall for spring bloom; warm-season varieties also work sown in spring after last frost.
• Sunlight: Full sun, at least 6 hours daily.
• Soil: Well-drained soil; amend heavy clay for drainage, and skip heavy fertilizer.
• Watering: Water lightly until established, then rely on rainfall.
• Bloom order: Cool-season varieties flower first; coneflower, cosmos, and blanket flower carry into summer.
• Heat note: Poppies, cornflowers, lupines, and clarkia fade as summer heat builds.
• Hardiness: Suited to much of Texas, roughly zones 6 to 10.
• Toxicity note: Lupine plants and seeds are toxic if eaten; keep from pets and children.

Before You Close This Page
This is a wildflower mix built around the Texas growing year, cool-season color in spring and heat-tolerant bloom that carries on into summer. Texas Wildflower Seed Mix packs 24 varieties into one planting for pollinators and sunny ground. Scatter it in fall, water until it takes hold, and let it reseed.