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blue lupine

Lupinus nootkatensis

Photo by ChrisDiaz
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Field Notes

Description:

The flowers are blue (sometimes tinged pink or white), pea-like, to two centimeters long; in dense clusters as much as thirty centimeters long (Ibid). They are hermaphrodite (have both female and male organs) and are pollinated by bees.

Habitat:

False Pass, Alaska is located near the Western center of Isanotski Strait which connects the Northern Pacific Ocean and the Eastern edge of the Bering Sea. Mountainous, ocean-side.

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PublishedJune 21, 2011

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