{"product_id":"harlequin-lupine-seeds-lupinus-stiversii","title":"Harlequin Lupine Seeds (Lupinus stiversii)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eOrnate and improbable…a wild lupine with flowers that can be purple, pink, cream, and yellow all at the same time…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eEndemic to disjunct, dry, sloping locations around California, from the hills above Hollywood, to scattered populations around Yosemite, to sun-baked rocky grasslands of the northern Sierra Nevada, this is a lupine unlike others. It’s a desert carnival in miniature. It’s an annual, reaching a mere 18-inches in height (more often shorter than that).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003eYes, it’s visited by bumble bees. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003eYes, it’s a potential caterpillar host plant for a bunch of butterflies: the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eMelissa blue (\u003cem\u003ePlebejus melissa\u003c\/em\u003e), the sooty hairstreak (\u003cem\u003eSatyrium fuliginosum\u003c\/em\u003e), the Afranius duskywing (\u003cem\u003eErynnis afranius\u003c\/em\u003e), the arrowhead blue (\u003cem\u003eGlaucopsyche piasus\u003c\/em\u003e), the western sulphur (\u003cem\u003eColias occidentalis\u003c\/em\u003e), the shasta blue (\u003cem\u003ePlebejus shasta\u003c\/em\u003e), Queen Alexandra's sulphur (\u003cem\u003eColias Alexandra\u003c\/em\u003e), the Acmon Blue (\u003cem\u003ePlebejus acmon\u003c\/em\u003e), the Persius Duskywing (\u003cem\u003eErynnis persius\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eAnd yes, it’s a likely caterpillar host for interesting moths, such as the savanna-dwelling noctunid moth \u003cem\u003eDryotype opina\u003c\/em\u003e, and the secretive little gelechiid, \u003cem\u003eAproaerema nigrella\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eYes, it can basically grow in sunny parched locations with the thinnest soil.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eYes… yes… yes…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eYes, it is and does all of those things. But you’ll plant it simply because it’s absurd and wonderful at the same time. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eApproximately 20+ seeds (0.1 grams)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northwest Meadowscapes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50111699714294,"sku":null,"price":15.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1274\/1723\/files\/harlequin-lupine-seeds-lupinus-stiversii-2126741.jpg?v=1773680588","url":"https:\/\/northwestmeadowscapes.com\/products\/harlequin-lupine-seeds-lupinus-stiversii","provider":"Northwest Meadowscapes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}