It’s Lupine time, they’re blooming all along the roadsides and in country fields, adding color to our UP North landscapes. The first shot comes from Nancy Haun, who said there are miles of purple Lupines lining the rails in Baraga along the old DSS&A -Soo Line. How beautiful with Keweenaw Bay and Lake Superior in the background.

The next two photos were snapped by Debbie Jarve giving us a bit closer look at these pretty, perenial beauties. She said it was a beautiful evening and the wind kept the bugs away. Like Nancy’s photo above, Debbie only spotted purple colored flowers, also. Come to think of it, the ones I see along the roadside on my walks are mostly purple too.

The bottom two shots were taken by Judy Byykkonen. She really got in there close for her pictures to give us a good look at them and she found a pink one to photograph! They sure are pretty, but I wonder how they would fare if you cut them and put them in a vase?

Green Earth with JillM has a lovely video with lupines, gosling families and birds singing in the background. The lead-in says: “So many beautiful things to see and hear when you take a walk. I just had my cell phone today, a morning rain had just stopped and the birds were singing. Couldn’t resist-"

More Lupines.

More, more, please Mary, more!

They are my favorite pulchritudinous perennial.

Absolutely beautiful photos and video, thanks
for sharing! I love Lupines, just wish they lasted
a little longer into summer. They are important
pollinator plants, and they are the ONLY host
plant for the endangered Karner Blue Butterfly.
And according to the FWS: Wild lupine is actually
a nitrogen-fixating plant, meaning it enhances soil
fertility by fixing nitrogen from the air into a useful
form that can be absorbed by organisms. Nitrogen
fixation allows lupine plants to tolerate nutrient-
poor soil, like its preferred sandy habitat.
How cool is that!
Was all wrapped up in the lovely video and the
amazing variety of bird songs. Heard Goldfinch,
Robin, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak, and several
species of Warblers in that short clip.

Hi
I've always liked wildflowers, though I can only ID a
few. Our local nature center did a controlled burn in a
grassland and lupines came out afterward.

I like the first photo and D.A.'s photo of guardrail-
eating lupines best.

Beautiful. Purple is one of my favorite colors.

When I lived in Baraga, there was a field a bit up
the road, and there were purple, pink and white
lupines. There was an old homestead hiding in the
trees behind that field, so I'm sure they were
planted decades, perhaps even a century ago...

When we were little, we'd pick bouquets for Gram,
and she'd always treat them like gold, even tho at
night, the moths would fly out of those little
pods/buds...good memories!

So, so gorgeous! One of my very favorite flowers. I
just wish they'd hang around longer. I can never
get enough of them. Like my poppies, they are
almost done and I am so sad.

Beautiful pictures. Yours too, D.A.

I love the photos. Lupines are one of my favourite flowers.

More Lupines and a bit of Orange Hawkweed (I think).

I don't know what the orange is here.

And a closeup of the Orange Hawkweed
(Devil's Paintbrush?)

These were all taken in "downtown" Copper Harbor.