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Lupinus perennis

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Home Perennial Lupinus perennis

Grassy places in dry sandy soils.

Family: Fabaceae
Height: 0.6 m / 2 ft
Sun
Light, Medium Soil
Dry to Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 3 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 1 of 5
Other Uses: 3 of 5

Native Habitat

Sundial Lupine Lupinus perennis native habitat is Grassy places in dry sandy soils.

Edible Uses

Seed - cooked. Used as a protein-rich vegetable or savoury dish in any of the ways that cooked beans are used, they can also be roasted or ground into a powder. The seed has a bitter flavour due to the presence of toxic alkaloids, it should be thoroughly leached before being cooked. Seedpods - cooked.

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