Lupinus albicaulis |
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Drew's silky lupine, pine lupine, sickle-keel lupine, white stem lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 3–12 dm, puberulent to silky-appressed. |
Stems | ascending-erect, clustered, branched. |
Leaves | cauline; stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 5–18 mm; petiole 2–7 cm; leaflets 5–10, blades 20–70 × 5–14 mm, adaxial surface pubescent. |
Racemes | open, 10–44 cm; flowers usually whorled. |
Peduncles | 2–12 cm; bracts deciduous, 6–16 mm. |
Pedicels | 2–7 mm. |
Flowers | (8–)12–16 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 7–13 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–12 mm; corolla usually purple, rarely yellowish white, banner patch indistinct, banner glabrous abaxially, keel strongly upcurved, glabrous, banner and wings narrow, not covering tip. |
Legumes | 2–5 cm, silky. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | 3–7, gray to tan, mottled tan, 4–7 mm. |
2n | = 48. |
Lupinus albicaulis |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Dry slopes, sandy prairies, openings of mixed conifer forests, ± montane. |
Elevation | 500–3000 m. (1600–9800 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA
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Discussion | Lupinus albicaulis ranges from the Cascades in western Oregon and Washington, and in California from the northern North Coast Ranges to the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and southward into the Western Transverse Ranges. Plants with flowers 8–11 mm have been called var. shastensis. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus |
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Synonyms | L. albicaulis var. bridgesii, L. albicaulis var. shastensis, L. formosus var. bridgesii, L. gormanii, L. ochroleucus, L. pumicola, L. purpurascens, L. shastensis, L. whiltoniae, L. wolfianus |
Name authority | Douglas in W. J. Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 165. (1832) |
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