Sky Blue Lupine

Given that this is short-lived (biennial) and difficult to transplant or grow from seed, this is perhaps best encouraged in places where it grows naturally.  Minimizing competition from other plants, and perhaps burning the garden area, may be useful.  This plant appears to have a seedbank with seeds that may sprout over an extended period of years if conditions are right.

The range of this plant in Florida appears to be disjunct though how much of this is due to site conditions and how much could be an artifact of forestry practices is unknown.



Wildflower garden where it can be used as a specimen plant.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Hard to establish. Biennial, though may reseed.

• Showy flowers, Showy fruits, Interesting foliage
• Larval host for  frosted elfin (Callophyris irus) butterfly, which is listed as  Endangered in Florida. 
• Also larval host for gray hairstreak (Strymon melinis) butterfly,  Genista broom moth (Uresiphita reversalis)a nd other butterflies and moths that use members of the Fabaceae family (FNPS blog).
• Attracts bees including bumblebees.  Documented visitors include Anthidiellum notatum rufimaculatum, A. perplexum, Megachile exilis parexilis, Osmia sp. and Bombus griseocollis (Deyrup et al. 2002).