Garden flower and plant: Lupine flower
Common name: Lupine. Scientific classification: Kingdom: Plantae. Division: Magnoliophyta. Class: Magnoliopsida. Subclass: Rosidae. (unranked): Eurosids I. Order: Fabales. Family: Fabaceae. Subfamily: Faboideae. Tribe: Genisteae. Subtribe: Lupininae. Genus: Lupinus
Lupines belong to the genus Lupinus of the pea family, Leguminosae. a group of annual and beautiful perennial plants. It grows from ~ feet to 5 feet in height and has beautiful, long spikes of pea-shaped or butterfly-like flowers covering at least 12 inches on stems 3 feet or more high. Bloom color: white, blue, yellow, or purple flowers.