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Originally Posted by SunKneeMarie
I'll let him pretend....
Oh and Flower Mound is a city... about 60,000 people actually... and there is an actual flower mound that's a nice little hill that's now fenced off and has a plaque on the fence... apparently it used to be a wildflower-covered rise on this generally flat area... and that's how it got its name... I've never seen very many flowers on it in all the years we've been here... come to find out that the building of the small shopping center right behind the mound somehow affected the growth/wind/seeding pattern and it just doesn't bloom like it used to  |
I knew that first part...I was just teasin' you.....now the next parts I did not know...but this part....well....
The Flower Mound
There are almost as many legends, interpretations, and stories, often contradictory, concerning The Mound as there are bluebonnets in Texas.
There are very few unchallenged facts about The Mound. The Town of Flower Mound derived its name from it, it rises 650 feet above sea level, and it stands 50 feet above the surrounding countryside. Texas' eminent historian, the late A.C. Greene, believed the hill received its name in the 1840s because of an unusual amount of wild flowers that grew on it. This area was part of the great American Black Land Prairie that ran from Canada to the Rio Grande and from the Rockies to the Mississippi. Only 1,000 acres remain of the original 20 million known as the Tall Grass Prairie.
Because early pioneer settlers used The Mound as a haymeadow and never plowed, the wild flowers were conspicuously abundant in wet springs. However, wildflowers and native prairie grasses flourish throughout the year. The non-profit Mound Foundation has identified more than 175 species of wild flowers, a hand full of which are included on this Web site.
The Mound is now referred to as The Flower Mound.
Yarrow.
Achillea millefolium.
May. An old herbal medicine from Europe.