TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Several rare Michigan natural habitats require fire not just to thrive, but to survive.

In addition to its human admirers, the lupine plant attracts pollinators to its tubular flowers of white, pink, red, yellow, ...

In swales of purple-blue, lupine is the summer beauty queen of this meadow at Discovery Park. Soft swirls of deer beds amid crushed ferns and tall grasses between the plants show people aren’t ...

At Point Reyes, the low, purple lupine flowers are coming back in abundance—the number of plants in the remnant dune area has hovered around 160,000 to 187,000 plants, but several hundred ...

Even without April showers, Big Sur mountains are blooming with May wildflowers.These dazzling purple lupine fields were accessible only by climbing a steep hiking trail just south of Pfeiffer Big ...

The Glass family went to the right spot. Purple lupine now blankets the paths at Beeks Bight along the lake in Granite Bay. "I like all the water and the flowers. I'm going to call it the sea of ...

Bright yellow balsamroot, stalks of purple lupine and clusters of baby pink phlox are part of the Mid-Columbia superbloom on the hillsides in all directions. Phlox on Badger Mountain in Richland ...

But up close, countless stalks filled with endless small purple buds reach for the sun. These flowering plants — Donner Lake Lupine — have capitalized on a rare opportunity. An opportunity ...