It looks like it is going to be a wild lupine, you are a lucky duck having so many wildflowers on your property
I love that pic
jolana

I definitely think this is related to bluebonnets or lupines in some way. The leaves are just so similar as well as the structure of the flowers. But, I'm by no means an expert at plant ID, so I hope you get some professional opinions here that can help you ID this one well!

Closest I've gotten to those big,smooth leaves! PJ

Here is a link that might be useful:

After looking up lupines it sure looks like that's what it is, Boy are you lucky Kristi.
Only wild stuff I get here are weeds and lot's of them, and not the pretty weeds either LOL.

Dibs on seeds!!!

I'm fairly sure that what you have is Scurf-Pea, Psoralea latestipulata. It's strange, really, because I rarely see these. But I happened to see one today...didn't have a camera, but here is a photo from another site.
http://www.photosbycolette.com/digiflowers/digiflowersclueless.html

I agree with you photo.

Scurf Pea it is!! Thanks to all of you. PJ, LOL your link had me thinking maybe it was a mutant Lupine...the foliage is so similar, I WISH the flower heads ended up like Lupine as well.

There are very few of these on the property and I had wondered for years what they were but when you're searching "mutant bluebonnet", LOL well it didn't get me very far. They kind of bring to mind something Will Robinson might have come across in his adventures ;).

Julie, since there are so few here I will see how seed production goes with them. Barb, I feel very fortunate to have the variety of wildflowers that we do here....but I share your pain on the weeds. Believe me, they are much more prolific here than the wildflowers.

Linda, were you already familiar with the name Scurf Pea? If not, how the heck did you find it??? What kind of environment (sun/shade, etc) did you see the one growing in? I have a total of about 6-7 of these plants here, all but one are in afternoon shade and one is in full sun.

It is being an outstanding year for the wildflowers here after two years of drought and almost non-existent blooms. I really thought that I had lost all of the bluebonnets here, but this year they are blooming in profusion and in areas where they have never bloomed before. Can't wait to see what the rest of spring has to bring. What amazes me the most is the huge numbers of really tiny little plants that have tiny little blooms there are. I'll do some pics of those soon since I have no idea what most of them are. The only people that would even notice that they exist are gardeners and when I've pointed them out to non-gardeners, the reponse I've gotten is a bored "oh yeah".....LOL.

Again, thanks and I hope you all don't mind if this isn't the last one you have to ID for me :).

Kristi

2nd dib on seeds!

I am so glad there are people like you, Kristi, who give the wildflowers a place to reproduce. There aren't too many areas left for them now. I try to watch for them when I mow the areas (donkey pen) where they may have a chance to grow - the only ones I have at the present time are the wine cups, and oh, how pretty they are!!!

I have a patch of verbena out near the mail box. I threatened the yard man with mayham if he mowed them down.

Kathy, speaking of yard men, a couple of weeks ago mine moved down my black ebony tree that was about a foot high. I was so mad that I just about fried them on the spot. The only problem is that the owner, who happens to be very nice, has trouble finding help, and this was a new crew. I was not a happy gardener about it.

Carrie, I don't picture myself, in any way, noble in trying to preserve them....LOL, I think of myself as selfish! I love having them here to enjoy and don't want to lose that. The only mowing I will be doing this year (out away from the house) is just paths to the 5 horse pastures and in front of their feeders. Oh, there is one small area inside a small paddock that hasn't had anything in it for a while and it is waist high in a very invasive yellow flowered WEED. That I will be mowing as well. I did, after exhaustive research last year, identify it but I've forgotten now!

The folks just down the street had a massive and beautiful stand of wild onion but they mowed it.. But then they have a much more "yard-like" situation there. Since last year was really the first year I started trying to do anything gardening-wise here, I've always appreciated the labor free show the wildflowers have provided here. See, not only selfish but LAZY TOOOooooo! If I wasn't so lazy, I might have catalogued everything here by now ;).

Kristi

I mow wild onions, also, Kristi - they are so invasive and will take over everything !!!!!

Kristi, yes, I already knew what it was. I'm a native plant-savvy person and first saw some years ago when I took a college field course on wildflowers. The one I saw the other day was in an area not yet developed, dark soil, rocky. It looked fairly sunny, but there were bushes nearby that may give it some shade. I've also seen them near dry creeks in areas that are sometimes moist, sometimes dry, rocky and part shade.

"dry, rocky and part shade"

Thanks Linda, that describes where most of these are located. The other in full sun and dry and rocky.

Kristi