Idaho Wildflowers headscratcher: Silvery Lupine?

On By Jennifer Mugrage

I first assumed this was a yucca, but the leaves are all wrong.

I looked up these leaves with the help of the Google machine, and it suggested Silvery Lupine.

Sure enough, here’s a more typical-looking example of the flower from the same trip.

I can only conclude that the freakishly tall and white silvery lupine is an unholy hybrid of lupine and yucca.

Here’s an in-between-looking specimen.

Botany is hard.

3 thoughts on “Idaho Wildflowers headscratcher: Silvery Lupine?”

  2. Beth Carpenter's avatar Beth Carpenter

    Deninitely lupine. The shape of the leaves and the pea-like blossums give it away. I love the silvery leaves. The wild lupine in Alaska grow about three feet tall, but they have green leaves.

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