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ryanscabinlife · 10 months

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The wild lupines are absolutely everywhere here in New Brunswick. They’re usually out all the way to mid August. Extremely invasive but oh so pretty.

14-Jun-2023

#lupine #wild flowers #wild lupine #lupinus #flowers #floral #spring #blooms #new brunswick #atlantic canada #maritimes #lupin

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erikacousland · 1 year

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Wild lupine in purple and blue Wild lupines in bloom (EN-US) © silverjohn/Getty Images Plus

Featured on Bing- May 12, 2023 Wild lupine in purple and blue

A butterfly's best friend | | EN-CA, EN-CN, EN-GB, EN-US

#Wild Lupine #Flower #Bing

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bingwallpaper · 1 year

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Wild lupine

Wild lupine, sometimes called bluebonnet, is one of the most beautiful perennial flowering plants. They bloom in early spring or early summer, and are usually blue, pink, or purple. When spread across meadows and along roadsides, they can bring even the most mundane landscapes to life. Wild lupine is also the only plant used by the Karner blue butterfly to protect its eggs; when the larvae hatch, they crawl up the lupine steps to eat the new leaves. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, lupine numbers declined drastically, and the flower is now considered endangered.

#wild lupine #bluebonnet

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elminx · 1 year

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A major goal for the growing season is to catch my Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis) seed pods BEFORE they burst so that I can give native botanicals to everybody that I have ever met who gardens. We tried to do this last year but it was the first time that the lupine had bloomed and those seedpods go a lot faster than expected.

#witchblr #green witchery #gardening #native plants #lupinus perennis #wild lupine #garden goals

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petitworld · 18 days

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Mount Adams, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington, USA by Lee Rentz

#mount adams #mount #landscape #flower fields #flower field #washington #usa #wild flowers #nature #flowers #beautiful #lupines #nature aesthetic #petitworld favs #petitworld

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reasonsforhope · 3 months

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In the Willamette Valley of Oregon, the long study of a butterfly once thought extinct has led to a chain reaction of conservation in a long-cultivated region.

The conservation work, along with helping other species, has been so successful that the Fender’s blue butterfly is slated to be downlisted from Endangered to Threatened on the Endangered Species List—only the second time an insect has made such a recovery.

[Note: "the second time" is as of the article publication in November 2022.]

To live out its nectar-drinking existence in the upland prairie ecosystem in northwest Oregon, Fender’s blue relies on the help of other species, including humans, but also ants, and a particular species of lupine.

After Fender’s blue was rediscovered in the 1980s, 50 years after being declared extinct, scientists realized that the net had to be cast wide to ensure its continued survival; work which is now restoring these upland ecosystems to their pre-colonial state, welcoming indigenous knowledge back onto the land, and spreading the Kincaid lupine around the Willamette Valley.

First collected in 1929 [more like "first formally documented by Western scientists"], Fender’s blue disappeared for decades. By the time it was rediscovered only 3,400 or so were estimated to exist, while much of the Willamette Valley that was its home had been turned over to farming on the lowland prairie, and grazing on the slopes and buttes.

Pictured: Female and male Fender’s blue butterflies.

Now its numbers have quadrupled, largely due to a recovery plan enacted by the Fish and Wildlife Service that targeted the revival at scale of Kincaid’s lupine, a perennial flower of equal rarity. Grown en-masse by inmates of correctional facility programs that teach green-thumb skills for when they rejoin society, these finicky flowers have also exploded in numbers.

[Note: Okay, I looked it up, and this is NOT a new kind of shitty greenwashing prison labor. This is in partnership with the Sustainability in Prisons Project, which honestly sounds like pretty good/genuine organization/program to me. These programs specifically offer incarcerated people college credits and professional training/certifications, and many of the courses are written and/or taught by incarcerated individuals, in addition to the substantial mental health benefits (see x, x, x) associated with contact with nature.]

The lupines needed the kind of upland prairie that’s now hard to find in the valley where they once flourished because of the native Kalapuya people’s regular cultural burning of the meadows.

While it sounds counterintuitive to burn a meadow to increase numbers of flowers and butterflies, grasses and forbs [a.k.a. herbs] become too dense in the absence of such disturbances, while their fine soil building eventually creates ideal terrain for woody shrubs, trees, and thus the end of the grassland altogether.

Fender’s blue caterpillars produce a little bit of nectar, which nearby ants eat. This has led over evolutionary time to a co-dependent relationship, where the ants actively protect the caterpillars. High grasses and woody shrubs however prevent the ants from finding the caterpillars, who are then preyed on by other insects.

Now the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde are being welcomed back onto these prairie landscapes to apply their [traditional burning practices], after the FWS discovered that actively managing the grasslands by removing invasive species and keeping the grass short allowed the lupines to flourish.

By restoring the lupines with sweat and fire, the butterflies have returned. There are now more than 10,000 found on the buttes of the Willamette Valley."

-via Good News Network, November 28, 2022

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thebotanicalarcade · 1 year

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Ohio Spring Wildflower Field Guide

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lemonspades · 1 month

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Top ten anime betrayals Zelda how could you

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oodlesodoodles · 11 months

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#disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois #coupris kineema #I caught a wild hare looking at lupin the 3rd pics and the lil song hook from count of calligostro wont leave my head #So i blacked out and woke up with this in my hands after two hours #Freehanded lines baybeeee #Theres something so satisfying about a straight inkline sigh #Also the kineema? What is wrong with that bitch

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sproutinglupine · 14 days

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March's Nature Walk cross stitch pattern was Twilight! A moonlit stroll through a fantasy realm 💜

Nature Walk Series | Sprouting Lupine Shop

#hello hello to everyone from radar!#that was so wild and cool I'm so glad y'all are here!#nature walk series #cross stitch #my art #my patterns #fiber art #cross stitch pattern #sprouting lupine #alt text in image #cross stitch sampler

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aithusarosekiller · 2 months

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Reg lives au where he's still trying to hunt down voldy after the war but he's gone a little bit mad and frantic so Remus has to keep him on a tight fucking leash for the safety of himself and everyone else

He'll find out the tiniest bit of info and do the creepiest smile you've ever seen and his eyes light up and Remus is like 'okay. Thanks enough of that, thank you'

#he has tp domesticate him like a wild animal #remus lupin #regulus black #regulus black lives #moonwater #platonic moonwater #moonseeker #could be platonic or romantic

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autumncottageattic · 8 months

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