Lupinus argenteus var. hillii |
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Habit | Herbs to 3 dm, hairs inconspicuous and forwardly appressed to spreading. |
Stems | branched. |
Leaves | usually cauline, basal leaves usually absent at flowering, if present then petioles less than 3 times as long as leaflets; leaflet blades narrow and folded, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, surfaces gray or silvery-pubescent. |
Pedicels | (1–)2–5(–6) mm. |
Flowers | 6–8 mm; calyx bulge 0–1 mm; corolla blue-purple, wings 5.5–7 mm, banner equaling wings, usually thinly strigulose abaxially. |
2n | = 48. |
Lupinus argenteus var. hillii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Ponderosa pine forest, upper edge of pinyon-juniper woodlands. |
Elevation | 2000–2800 m. (6600–9200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; NV; UT |
Discussion | Variety hillii is the small-flowered form that occurs in the Southwest in which the flowers are budlike and scarcely gaping. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | L. hillii, L. hillii var. osterhoutianus, L. ingratus var. arizonicus, L. marcusianus, L. osterhoutianus |
Name authority | (Greene) Barneby in A. Cronquist et al.: Intermount. Fl. 3(B): 246. (1989) |
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