#lupine
Strangers
Blue and violet wildflowers in-bloom in the first week of June
(from top-to-bottom, left-to-right: Penstemonsp.,Mertensia longiflora,Delphinium bicolor,Lupinus sericeus,Viola adunca,Linum lewisii,Mertensia paniculata)
Lolo National Forest, MT
June 2014, 2015, 2016
Robert Niese
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I think you’re Fab-aceae!
Last week, I had the great pleasure of creating a couple of pieces for Plant Love Stories! Fabaceae is one of my favorite plant families, so I knew I had to dedicate a valentine to a fab Fab. What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with plants and animals you love like lupines and bumblebees?
#Lupinus #Fabaceae #bumblebee #Bombus #PlantHeartArt #PlantLoveStories #ValentinesDay #puns #plantlove #plants #love #botanize #art #science #scientificillustration #botanicalillustration #illustration #plantart #markerart #prismacolor #markers #penandink #lupine #bee
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Fun at work this week: filing Brassicaceae into the collection and sowing Lupine seeds! I love it when I get to work in both the “dead” collection and the living collection. The herbarium collection is approaching 1.3 million dried and pressed specimens. I don’t know how many perennials are accessioned into the living collection. Many hundreds, I imagine! I’m hoping to learn more about how the living collection is managed in the coming months.
#california #botanicgarden #botanicalgarden #plants #southerncalifornia #botany #botanize #livingmuseum #garden #gardening #museum #herbarium #ranchosantaanabotanicgarden #science #lupine #seeds (at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden)
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Lupinus albifrons is a member of the pea family and grows through a broad range of northern Baja California up through southern Oregon. Known as the silver bush lupine, it inhabits many habitats with the common trait of being open spaces with fairly dry conditions. Once established, a deep taproot allows it to draw what little moisture it needs to persist even through hot, dry summers. It produces often copious, fragrant blooms in late spring through early summer and mutable leaves which can become more or less silvery depending on the growing conditions. Notably, this species is one of three which can host the federally endangered mission blue butterfly (Icaricia icarioides missionensis). The larvae which feed on the plant become toxic due to the same compounds which make the foliage resistant to herbivory in general. This is in fact a contributing factor to the butterfly’s endangered status as many of the host plants were removed because of their toxicity to livestock.
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I love the smell of these beauties.
Book Review: In Defense of Plants
Book Review: In Defense of Plants
Many of us who are plant obsessed didn’t connect with plants right away. It took time. There was a journey we had to go on that would ultimately bring us to the point where plants are now the main thing we think about. After all, plants aren’t the easiest things to relate to. Not immediately anyway. Some of us have to work up to it. Once there, it’s pretty much impossible to go back to our former…
Girdwood, Alaska.
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Lupins my beloved
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