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Hill's lupine

Lupinus hillii

Hill's lupine
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0

Hill's lupine is a perennial wildflower native to Arizona and New Mexico, grown for its blue to purple spikes of pea-like flowers. It thrives in cool, well-drained, open ground and is conservation-listed as vulnerable, so wild-collected plants should be avoided.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then let the soil dry between waterings; it tolerates dry summers.
Soil
Well-drained, gritty or sandy soil; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates cold winters and frost, protect from prolonged heat above 30 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Safety
Mildly toxic: Seeds and other parts of lupines contain quinolizidine alkaloids that can cause nausea and other symptoms if eaten in quantity.
Native range
Arizona to New Mexico
Climate
temperate

About

Lupinus hillii, commonly known as Hill's lupine, is a species of lupine native to Arizona and some parts of New Mexico.

Where it grows

Its flowering season is May–September. The elevation that you could find the plant is between 6,000 and 9,000 feet, in Ponderosa pine forests.

Other Lupinus plants

Drew's silky lupine · Fleshy lupine · Lupinus albert-smithianus · Sicklekeel lupine · Silver lupine · White Lupin · Lupinus alopecuroides · Lupinus amandus · Lupinus anatolicus · Anderson's lupine · Narrowflower lupine · Narrowleaf lupine

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lupinus hillii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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