Spotting

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Looking closer from another phone showed me I'm absolutely wrong! Definitely lupine! I wish I knew how to remove a comment.

The whorled leaf structure gives it away as lupine and not sage.

http://www.rickcallahanphotography.com/i...

Some lupines are weedy...perhaps a non-native?

~Jason

This is the area that purple sage are common. Although from the poor resolution it appears like a lupine's flower structure. Lupine aren't found growing naturally ( looking like the picture) in the area!

That is certainly Lupine (Lupinus spp.). Can't pick out the species from the photo.