Lupinus polyphyllus Lindl. - Fabaceae - large-leaved lupine, garden lupin, **Vielblättrige Lupine**, Staudenlupine

Stout perennial herb, up to 1.50m tall, native to Northern America, naturalized and commonly cultivated as a garden plant elsewhere; leaves palmately compound, leaflets 9-17, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous above, pubescent below; inflorescence very long, many flowered, corolla about 3 times as long as the calyx, blue, violet, rose or white; fruit compressed, black at maturity, densely pubescent. \\
[[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242330712]]

The flower fragrance seems week bergamot-like with a peppery twist. 

"It is commonly used in gardens for its attractiveness to bees, ability to improve poor sandy soils with their nitrogen fixing ability and flowers; numerous cultivars have been selected... Low alkaloidal or sweet cultivars of this lupine suitable for fodder crops have been bred." 
[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupinus_polyphyllus]]

The flower volatiles are dominated by (E)-β-ocimene and (E)-β-farnesene, which together comprise over 50% of the fragrance. Minor constituents are sabinene, myrcene, limonene, linalool, α-copaene, β-cubebene and trans-α-bergamotene. \\
[Pollen advertisement: chemical contrasts between whole-flower and pollen odors., Dobson, H.E., Groth, I., Bergstrom, G., American Journal of Botany, 1996, 877-885] 
[[http://www.jstor.org/stable/2446264]]

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Botanical Register, vol.13, t.1096 (1827) [M.Hart] \\
[[http://plantgenera.org/species.php?id_species=624726]]

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flowering Lupinus polyphyllus, [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/|CC BY-SA 3.0]], Author: Andreas Kraska