Miniature Lupine is a showy flowering annual native to northwestern Baja California and throughout California.  It is found in diverse habitats where it often shares habitats with other prolifically blooming spring and early summer wildflowers  including the California poppy. The abundant flowers are a deep blue-purple and white or pale purple  often making large waves of color contrasting beautifully with the gold of California poppies across open areas in early spring. This plant  like other lupines  is a nitrogen fixer and important to soil health and the plants in its community.As its name suggests the flowers are usually two colors  with one often a deep blue  the other color is often white. Lupinus bicolor is cultivated as an ornamental plant  in native plant  drought tolerant  and wildlife gardens  and in natural landscaping and habitat restoration projects. Flowers blue with white banner spot that becomes deep magenta after fertilization.  Lupine are of value to pollinators  including native bees and bumble bees. Very useful in California ecosystems to add nitrogen to the soil so that other plants in the community can benefit.