Lupines are tall, beautiful wildflowers that grow in big spikes covered in tiny blossoms of blue, purple, pink, or even white! Their leaves are shaped like a little star or a hand with fingers spread out. In Texas, lupines called bluebonnets cover entire fields in spring!
Lupines have tall spikes of colorful flowers and star-shaped leaves. They are so pretty that some people think they look like they belong in a fairy tale. Bees love visiting lupines because the flowers are the perfect shape for a bumblebee to land on.
- Lupine seeds are tough little things with a very hard shell, and some seeds need to be scratched or even burned by a wildfire before they will sprout!
- The famous children’s book “Miss Rumphius” is about a woman who plants lupine seeds to make the world more beautiful.
- Lupines can make even rocky, poor soil healthy for other plants!
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