Oil on canvas, 60” x 48”, 2021

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In the collection of Willamette Valley Vineyards, Domaine Willamette 

Kincaid’s Lupine grows in the Willamette Valley and is the primary larval host plant of the Fender’s Blue Butterfly. Fender’s Blue Butterfly was thought to be extinct in Oregon because it had not been seen for 50 years until rediscovered in 1989 by OSU lepidopterist Paul Hammond. In January 2000 the butterfly was listed as endangered by the Federal Endangered Species Act and in the same action Kincaid’s Lupine was listed as threatened. Habitat loss from agricultural and urban development as well as aggressive invasive species Scot’s or Scotch Broom and Himalayan Blackberry continue to endanger the plant.