The Well-Tended Perennial Garden The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

Thermopsis villosa

(syn. Thermopsis caroliniana)

southern lupine

leguminoSae

Yellow lupinelike flowers; palmately

compound leaves

3–4 ft. high; 3 ft. wide

Full sun

Blooms May–June

Zones 3–8

pruning Interesting seedpods

develop if the plants are not dead-

headed. The foliage may decline by

midsummer; cut the plants to the

ground if this occurs.

other maintenance Southern

lupine is often hard to establish

because of its taproot, but once plants

take hold they can survive with a good

deal of neglect for many years.

Tolerates low-fertility soil and drought.

Avoid disturbing.

Thermopsis villosa