Lupine
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Lupine (Lupinus) - Beautiful annuals, biennials, and perennials, chiefly from N. America. The species in cultivation are few, though the names occurring in catalogues are numerous.
Lupine
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or lupin(l´pn), any species of the genus Lupinus, annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of the family Leguminosae (pulse family).
SIGNS: Toxicity in lupine is believed to result primarily from the alkaloid D-lupanine. The signs of lupine poisoning can develop within an hour or may take as long as a day.
Lupines have ornamental flower stalks from a basal rosette with broadly feathered leaves. They are either annual or perennial and native of meadows and open spots in woods throughout regions with a temperate climate.
Silky Lupine
Lupinus sericeus Pursh
Family: Fabaceae, Pea
Genus: Lupinus ...
Lupin (Lupine)- Lupinus
Lupins - Growing Lupins
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Lupines are great in flower vases alone or in arrangements.
Strange as it may seem, some Lupines are poisonous, while others are edible! Unless you know our Lupines, we recommend you do not serve them at the dinner table.
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Lupine
Lupine is annual and perennial flowering herb, genus Lupinus of the pea family, Leguminoseae ...
Lupines attract butterflies. The blossom of the lupines are great for cut flowers.
Wild blue lupine produces hairy seed pods, which ripen in midsummer. The seed pods open forcibly, throwing the seeds a distance of one or two yards in the process.
Carolina Lupine
Clump forming perennial with dense spikes of sulphur yellow in June resemble Baptista or lupines. Clean, compound foliage is attractive late into the season. Very durable and long lived once established. Beautiful cut flower.
( Albifrons Lupine )
Shrubby perennials. Leaves are medium green, large and palmate, with inversely spear-shaped leaflets to 1 1/4 inches long.
A good choice for this duty is annual lupines. It will be beautiful in the garden the first year adding color. In our cool climate, it will flower for six to eight weeks. The added bonus is lupines set nitrogen into the soil that feed the perennials.
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Baptisia
Baptisia sphaerocarpa 'Screamin' Yellow' ...
Lupine spp. Domestic Lupine. Escaped cultivation in Glacier National Park. Montana
Lupinus spp. Lupine. Arizona.
Cytisus scoparius. Scotch Broom. Idaho.
Wild lupine, with its beautiful spikes of blue flowers, hosts the federally endangered Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis). Females lay eggs on lupine leaves and blossoms, which become food for the slug-shaped larvae.
Colorful lupines brighten a border.
Whether you're a new gardener planning your first perennial bed, or an experienced gardener hoping to improve your existing plantings, we can help make your garden a success.
Frustrated lupine growers will like this new, easy-to-grow false indigo. Baptisia 'Carolina Moonlight' is 1.
Most of our Lupines are hardy perennials; this one is a tiny annual that occurs only on sand dunes and loose sands and gravels to about 6,500 feet altitude.
DOMESTICATED LUPINE See Tarwi
DORMANCY
Gleanings: Dormancy. By Jim Neitzel. 1982 #1, pp 22-24
DOVYALIS ABYSSINICA - Kashun
Dioecious.
Russell hybrid lupines are widely available and available in myriad colors. They produce spikes of pea-like flowers in early and midsummer on 30-36-inch plants.
Luzula nivea
(Snowy woodrush) Be the first to rate this plant
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Upright plant with lupine-like, bright flowers that can reach 3' in height. The flower stalks rise a foot above plants and bloom in early summer. Makes a dense, shrub-like clump of very attractive blue-green foliage that stands up to heat.
Many women, he says 'doe use the meale of Lupines mingled with the gall of a goate and some juyce of Lemons to make into a forme of a soft ointment.' He says that the burning of Lupin seeds drives away gnats.
Between late February and mid April beautiful carpets of annuals like poppies, lupines and owl clover cover the desert floor. These flowers depend on rainfall and this display of flowers occurs only about once in a decade.
Russell Hybrid Lupine, with its palmately compound foliage and showy, candle-like, early Summer inflorescences, is a perennial that would be planted much more frequently were it not for its fastidious requirements of evenly moist, rich, acidic, ...
Herbs: Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis), Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium), Fleabane (Erigeron eximus), Cow Parsnip (Heracleum lanatum), Lupine (Lupinus spp.), Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum),
Ground Covers: ...
The leaves and flowers are similar to those of lupine which is also in the Pea family. I thought this was some type of low growing Lupine before Thomas Hemmerly's book 'Wildflowers of Tthe Central South'(Hemmerly) came out.
Peas, along with beans, clover and lupine, are part of the Fabaceae family of plants, also called the Leguminosae or legume family. Most people are only familiar with a handful of varieties, but…
How to Grow Colossus Peas ...
Common biennials include: Foxglove (Digitalis), Money Plant (Lunaria), Lupines, sweet williams (Dianthus), Canterbury bells, hollyhocks, leeks (Allium), parsley, and cabbage.
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Large, mature plants may hold as many as a hundred spikes in full bloom. Baptisia flowers strongly resemble ornamental lupines, perennials that do not tolerate heat and humidity.
Perennials - aconitum, golden alyssum, arabis, armeria, coreopsis, dianthus, dictamnus, gaillardia, helenium, hemerocallis, heuchera, iris, lupine, lychnis, rudbeckia, sedum and veronica.
Can sow as late as November or December in irrigated garden.
Grow best in association with its community of spring wildflowers, including baby blue-eyes, California gold poppy, Lupines, orange globe mallow, desert bluebells, and sideoats grama.
Lupine (Lupinus species)
Macadamia (Macadamia species)
Madagascar jasmine (Stephanotis floribunda)
Madagascar palm (Pachypodium lamerei)
Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus, Vinca rosea)
Magic lily, resurrection lily (Lycoris squamigera) ...
 See also: Green, May, Pinus, Pink, Grass
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