The Skyblue Lupine (Lupinus diffusus), found in the southeastern United States, has skyblue flowers with cream spots and simple leaves that separate it from Florida’s other four Lupines. It is named after Lupus the wolf due to the belief that the plant, which occupies sandhills and other dry areas with poor soil, wolfishly devoured the soil’s fertility. In fact, the opposite is true, as the plant releases nitrogen into the soil when it dies.
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