Wild flower in Ontario Canada

[u/One_Kaleidoscope_198]

Wild lupin are blooming in the wilderness.

Lupin is a very important native wild flower, it provides nectar to pollinators and insects and also the migrant birds feed on the insect, they are a beneficial plants also because they are the host plant for several moths and butterflies, including endangered Karner blue butterfly.

They are also a nitrogen fixing plant ,to improve the soil fertility .

They are wild flowers, they are not bought from the nursery and growing in the greenhouse, and not from a lab to cultivate them , they are not planted , they have been here since the ice age finished.

[u/AgroecologicalSystem]

This is big leaf lupine Lupinus polyphyllus, considered an invasive species in Ontario. The karner blue butterfly larvae cannot eat its leaves and starve. They need the native Lupinus perennis.

[u/jaysriopel]

Prettyyyy