Lupinus albicaulis |
Lupinus kuschei |
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Drew's silky lupine, pine lupine, sickle-keel lupine, white stem lupine |
kusche's lupine, Yukon lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 3–12 dm, puberulent to silky-appressed. | Herbs, perennial, 1.5–5(–6) dm, densely silky-sericeous. |
Stems | ascending-erect, clustered, branched. |
decumbent to erect, few to several-tufted, unbranched or 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. |
mostly basal with 3 or 4 cauline; stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 8–12 mm; basal petioles 4–7 cm, proximal cauline petioles 3.5–15 cm, distal ones 2–3.5 cm; leaflets 5–9, blades 15–70 × 3–8 mm, surfaces densely pubescent, adaxially less pubescent and greener. |
Racemes | open, 10–44 cm; flowers usually whorled. |
3–10(–12) cm; flowers in 3–6 whorls. |
Peduncles | 2–12 cm; bracts deciduous, 6–16 mm. |
2.5–7(–13) cm; bracts subpersistent, 4–10 mm. |
Pedicels | 2–7 mm. |
2–5(–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. |
10–13 mm; calyx slightly gibbous adaxially near base, bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-lobed, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-lobed, 4–6 mm; corolla blue to purple, banner spot light yellow, banner with inconspicuous hairs abaxially, adaxial keel glabrous or with a few cilia along adaxial edges towards tip, keel upcurved. |
Legumes | 2–5 cm, silky. |
1.5–3 cm, silky-pilose. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | 3–7, gray to tan, mottled tan, 4–7 mm. |
4–6. |
2n | = 48. |
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Lupinus albicaulis |
Lupinus kuschei |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Dry slopes, sandy prairies, openings of mixed conifer forests, ± montane. | Mesic to dry, sandy, gravelly, or rocky openings, lodgepole pine forests, alpine pumice fields. |
Elevation | 500–3000 m. (1600–9800 ft.) | 80–2600 m. (300–8500 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA
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AK; BC; YT |
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.) |
Lupinus kuschei is of conservation concern in Alaska; it is known from southern Alaska to northern British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. Lupinus kuschei may prove to be a hybrid between L. arcticus and L. sericeus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus |
Sibling taxa | ||
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 | L. jacobandersonii, L. porsildianus, L. sericeus var. kuschei |
Name authority | Douglas in W. J. Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 165. (1832) | Eastwood: Leafl. W. Bot. 3: 170. (1942) |
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