Lupinus albicaulis |
Lupinus truncatus |
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Drew's silky lupine, pine lupine, sickle-keel lupine, white stem lupine |
blunt-leaf lupine, collared annual lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 3–12 dm, puberulent to silky-appressed. | Herbs, annual, 2–5(–8) dm, finely pubescent, appearing glabrous. |
Stems | ascending-erect, clustered, branched. |
ascending or erect, branched or unbranched. |
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. |
cauline; petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm; leaflets 5–8, blades 20–40 × 2–5 mm, apex usually truncate, adaxial surface glabrous. |
Racemes | open, 10–44 cm; flowers usually whorled. |
6–35 cm; flowers loosely spirally arranged. |
Peduncles | 2–12 cm; bracts deciduous, 6–16 mm. |
3–10 cm; bracts persistent, 2–5 mm. |
Pedicels | 2–7 mm. |
2–4 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. |
8–13 mm; calyx 3–4 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire or shallowly cleft, 2.5–3 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 1.5–2 mm; corolla banner and wings magenta, banner spot white or yellowish, becoming dark magenta, keel stout, blunt, lower and upper margins ciliate from claw to middle. |
Legumes | 2–5 cm, silky. |
±3 cm, pubescent. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | 3–7, gray to tan, mottled tan, 4–7 mm. |
6–8. |
2n | = 48. |
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Lupinus albicaulis |
Lupinus truncatus |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering spring (Mar–May). |
Habitat | Dry slopes, sandy prairies, openings of mixed conifer forests, ± montane. | Openings in coastal sage scrub, chaparral, oak woodlands, burned areas. |
Elevation | 500–3000 m. (1600–9800 ft.) | 0–1200 m. (0–3900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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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.) |
Lupinus truncatus is known in the flora area from San Cruz County southward in the Central and South Coast regions; the South Coast, Transverse, and Peninsular ranges; and the Channel Islands. (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 |
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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) | Nuttall ex Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Beechey Voy., 336. (1838) |
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