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 ...

I asked Bill to stop the car. Blue spikes of flowers on the top of a road bank had caught my eye. We had just rounded a corner towards the back of Rainbow Lake Estates about the third week of March ...