LUPINE PERENNIAL

SUNDIAL LUPINE

[ Lupinus Perennis ]

Season: Perennial/Annual
Height: Up to 4 Ft.
Bloom Season: Spring/Summer
Environment: Full Sun/Partial Sun/Dry/Moist
Zones: 3 – 9 (As Perennial)
All Regions of North America (As Annual)

Lupine Perennial [ Lupinus Perennis ] is perennial and has flowers that stand up in straight clusters, the wings of each blossom folded back at times to slightly resemble a butterfly at rest. While this flowering plant is highly prominent in North America, species of Lupine grow throughout the world on nearly every continent. Blue, sometimes a bit red, pea-like flowers are in an upright, elongated, terminal cluster on an erect stem with palmately compound leaves. Its leaves are palmately divided into 7-11 leaflets. Occasionally flowers range from pink to white.

Lupine Perennial [ Lupinus Perennis ] quickly takes root and do best in drier soils with high acidity, sand content and drainage. The plant was once thought to deplete or wolf the mineral content of the soil; hence the genus name derived from the Latin lupus (wolf ). Actually the plant and all the family enhances soil fertility by fixing atmospheric nitrogen into a useful form.

The plant attracts birds.

PLANTING

Sow Inside: Before last frost
Sow Outside: Spring/Fall
Seed Depth: 1/4 - 1/8 Inch
Days to Emerge: 15 to 70

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