Silky Lupine
One of the great adaptations the silky lupine has evolved is to grow in places where the soil has a very low fertility. Its nitrogen-fixing ability not only allows it to grow in large colonies in the most arid of dry steppes, it actually improves soil quality allowing new species of plants to come in, take seed and grow.
- Copyright
- © 2014
- Image Size
- 4000x6000 / 9.6MB
- Keywords
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Angiosperms, Cowiche Canyon, Cowiche Canyon Trail, Eudicots, Fabaceae, Fabales, Faboideae, Genisteae, L. sericeus, Lupinus, Lupinus sericeus, PNW, Pacific NW, Pacific Northwest, Plantae, Pursh's silky lupine, Rosids, Spring, Washington, Yakima, Yakima County, beautiful, beauty, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, color, dicot, flora, flower, flowers, forb, fresh, fuzzy, green, hair, hairs, hairy, herb, lupine, native, natural, nature, pea, perennial, plant, plants, purple, silky lupine, subshrub, summer, west coast, whorl, wild, wildflower, wildflowers
- Contained in galleries
- Blue & Purple Wildflowers, Fabaceae (Peas and Legumes)
