Name: Susan Virginia (Zone 8a) God is the only thing that matters.
There is such a thing as false lupine or redneck lupine, have you tried those? I think most of them are just Baptisia.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29