🦋 The Karner blue butterfly depends on one flower for survival: wild blue lupine.
These violet blossoms grow in sandy, sunlit prairies and pine barrens, creating the only habitat where Karner blues can thrive. Once common across the Midwest and Northeast, the butterfly is now endangered due to habitat loss and fragmentation. Protecting and restoring lupine patches means giving this butterfly a chance to flutter back into abundance.
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