Most certainly a lupine, with their distinctive purple-blue pea-like flowers at the top of the plant, and the thin and pointy leaves in groups of 5 or 6. Slightly hairy, difficult to tell apart from other lupines, but because of its very close proximity to the coast as we were right off of the beach it seemed like it was seashore lupine.
Lupinus littoralis is a species of lupine known by the common name seashore lupine. It is native to the coastline of western North America from British Columbia to northern California, where it grows in sandy habitat. It is a low perennial herb or subshrub growing in a clump or mat no more than 30 centimeters tall. Each palmate leaf is divided into 5 to 9 leaflets up to 3.5 centimeters long. The herbage is coated in...
