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Lupinus perennis (Wild Lupine) is a showy perennial boasting narrow, elongated clusters of usually deep blue, pea-like flowers from mid-spring to mid-summer. The ravishing blossoms are borne atop erect stems, well above the elegant foliage of palmately compound blue-green leaves.
Sundial or Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis L.) By Patricia J. Ruta McGhan. Found in sunny areas of bare sand, lupines thrive in black oak sand savannas and were very common prior to fire control. Today, homes, livestock pens, and brush are invading their last strongholds.
Sundial lupine (Lupinus perennis) is a beautiful native plant that offers many benefits to the butterfly and bee gardener. It is a larval host plant for the Wild Indigo Duskywing, Columbine Duskywing, Persius Duskywing, Eastern Tailed-Blue, Silvery Blue, Frosted Elfin, Gray Hairstreak, Painted Lady, American Lady, Orange Sulphur, and Clouded ...
It is a wildlife-friendly plant that produces showy blue flowers in spring and may die down in the heat of the summer. As with all plants in the bean family, it fixes nitrogen allowing it to tolerate poor-nutrient soil. Loss of habitat threats the wild lupine in some areas.
The attractive green leaves of the sundial lupine are divided into five leaflets and radiate from the common stem. The showy blue to violet flowers are quite fragrant, pea-like and bloom in elongated clusters.
sundial lupine Blue-purple flowers range in their degree of coloration, and in patches this plant has a calico effect. This plant is the chosen host of the Karner blue butterfly, the frosted elfin butterfly, and a food source for native bees and Monarch butterflies.
Sundial Lupine blooms profusely in racemes with pea-like blue & purple flowers. Palm-shaped leaves surround the plant as an added attraction, making it a popular choice for gardens or restorations with dry, sandy soils. Lupine requires well-drained soils but will adapt to most dry soil types; sand. loam, and gravel.
