Lupinus sericatus, Cobb Mountain Lupine
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A rare and highly prized species from Sonoma, Lake and Napa Counties. Cobb Mountain Lupine forms a low, wide mound of gorgeous, broad, silver leaves with thick, 12 inch spikes of mauve-pink to violet flowers rising above the foliage in spring. It is naturally found in the woodlands and chaparral of California’s North Coast Range. It easily colonizes gardens and disturbed habitat, as well. Give it full sun to very light shade and good drainage. Don’t water much once established. Deer do eat lupines.
Lupine flowers attract a wide array of insects, especially bees. It is also the host plant for the Silvery Blue Butterfly and the Acmon Blue Butterfly, as well as numerous moth species.