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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Fabaceae
Lupinus polyphyllus Lindl.
big-leaf lupine
Lupinus: from the Latin lupus for "wolf," alluding to the belief that these plants robbed the soil, which is the opposite of the truth
polyphyllus: polys for "many, frequent, much;" phyllon for "leaves"
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Introduced - escaped |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, to 40" tall forb, coarse |
| Flower: | blue, 5-parted; inflorescence a 8"-24" dense, conical cluster (raceme) |
| Fruit: | pod |
| Leaf: | palmately divided into 11-17 leaflets |
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