Lupinus polyphyllus: Also called garden lupine, bifleaf lupine, or Russell hybrid lupine, this is the perennial wildflower from which new hybrids are created. This blue or purple lupine can take a ...

Unfortunately, if that purple flower is comfrey ... it can make nitrogen usable for plants, improving soil health. Wild lupine thrives in zones 3 through 8 and can handle full sun or part shade.

Maine’s only native lupine species, the sundial lupine ( Lupinus perennis ), once supported native pollinators such as the ...

Blazing fields of desert dandelions, streaks of purple lupine and pink sand verbena, and poppies bursting along hillsides have transformed Southern California. There’s still plenty of time to ...

Other native flowers to keep an eye out for especially in coastal areas includes the bright-yellow California goldfields, white beach strawberry flower and the stacked purple lupine flower, among ...

A common sight throughout much of Iceland is large fields of vibrant purple nootka, or Alaskan lupine. The flower looks at home in this landscape, but was actually introduced in 1945 to lowland ...

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 ...

Lupine flowers are native to California and commonly seen around the state in springtime. Jon Burton Reesman I was delighted to hear this because I actually live in Humboldt County, about an hour ...

Every March and April in metro Phoenix, fresh desert marigold, brittlebush, globemallow, purple lupine and chuparosa flowers bring the Sonoran Desert alive with the sights and smells of a ...

1 of 5 — A field of lupine flowers in Sugar Hill, N.H. Each June in New Hampshire marks the season of lupine. Visitors flock to the Franconia Notch area to admire the purple wildflowers and take ...

In addition to its human admirers, the lupine plant attracts pollinators to its tubular flowers of white, pink, red, yellow, blue, or purple. Most lupine varieties sold today are hybrids of the ...