By Alice Mary Herden on March 2, 2020 ( Leave a comment )

Skyblue Lupine

What’s blooming over at Chassahowitzka WMA… skyblue lupine! Just one of many of my favorite sandhill flowering plants.

Skyblue Lupine | March 2020 | Alice Mary Herden

The first day of Spring is March 19th, and it seems everything, in nature, is either late or early.

I first observed them in the early weeks of February just reaching out of the ground and blooming in the last two weeks of February.

Skyblue Lupine | March 2020 | Alice Mary Herden

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