Each spring, tall, lush spires of brightly colored lupine blooms appear and last through the summer, feeding wildlife and endearing passersby across North America. Whether they’re annual species like ...

It's easy to spot this one, blooming in April and May. Individual plants are biennial, living their first year with leaves, and blooming the next season. The plants are typically tightly crowded ...

Two sapphire-colored natural jewels in the Capital District are the wild blue lupine and the Karner blue butterfly. The wild blue lupine has stalks of multiple flowers ranging from pink to blue. The ...

Two sapphire-colored natural jewels in the Capital District are the wild blue lupine and the Karner blue butterfly. The wild blue lupine has stalks of multiple flowers ranging from pink to blue. The ...

Lupine, also known as lupin or bluebonnet, is a fast-growing plant that's known for its tall spire of colorful blooms, which you can expect to see from spring through midsummer. Lupine can be grown as ...

The Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission is asking volunteers to roll up their sleeves and collect some seeds. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Help the Karner blue butterfly For ...

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 the ...

It’s the most prominent butterfly when it’s time for public celebrations. The small insect has its own festival in Black River Falls, a city near the Karners’ range. And the butterflies, blue-grayish ...

Baptisia is a dependable, upright- growing perennial - almost reaching small shrub status in summer - that offers beautiful, purple-blue lupine-like flower spikes in spring. It's a native prairie ...

Showy fields of Western or big-leafed lupine plants that have escaped from gardens to ditches and open areas along the North Shore of Lake Superior won’t be blooming until later in June and early July ...