Lupinus bicolor |
Lupinus arbustus |
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bicolor lupine, field lupine, Lindley's annual lupine, Lindley's lupine, lupine, miniature lupine, Montana lupine, small-flower lupine, two-color lupine, two-colour lupine |
grassland lupine (ssp. neolaxiflorus), long-spur lupine, Montana lupine (ssp. pseudoparviflorus), spur lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, 0.5–4 dm, pubescent. | Herbs, perennial, 2–7 dm, green or gray-silky. |
Stems | ascending or erect, branched or unbranched. |
erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched. |
Leaves | cauline; petiole 1–7 cm; leaflets 5–8, blades 10–40 × 1–5 mm, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely pubescent. |
cauline and basal; stipules 4–9 mm; petiole 2–16 cm; leaflets 7–10(–13), blades 20–70 × 3–15 mm, adaxial surface strigose. |
Racemes | 4–20 cm; flowers usually in fewer than 5 whorls, sometimes spirally arranged. |
open, 3–18 cm; flowers whorled. |
Peduncles | 3–10 cm; bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm. |
2–5 cm; bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm. |
Pedicels | 1–3.5 mm. |
1–7 mm. |
Flowers | 4–10 mm; calyx abaxial lobe entire, 4–6 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 2–4 mm; corolla usually blue, rarely light blue, pink, or white, banner spot white, becoming magenta, upper keel margins usually ciliate near apex, rarely glabrous, sometimes blunt, banner longer than wide. |
8–14 mm; calyx spur distinct, 1–3 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 2.5–5 mm, 1–3 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 2–4 mm; corolla blue, purple, pink, white, or yellowish, banner patch white, yellowish, or absent, banner hairy abaxially, wings with dense hair patch outside near tip, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate. |
Legumes | 1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent. |
2–3 cm, silky. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | 5–8. |
3–6, tan, 5–6 mm. |
2n | = 48. |
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Lupinus bicolor |
Lupinus arbustus |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–spring (Mar–Jun). | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Open or disturbed areas. | Open sagebrush scrub or mixed-conifer forests. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. (0–5200 ft.) | 1500–3000 m. (4900–9800 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; OR; WA; BC; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora)
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CA; ID; MT; OR; UT; WA; BC
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Discussion | Lupinus bicolor is naturalized in Arizona. The named subspecies and varieties do not conform to consistently recognizable geographical or morphological entities (D. B. Dunn 1955). Vigorous plants with larger flowers may be confused with L. nanus. In California, plants on the Outer North Coast Ranges may persist for two growing seasons. Lupinus bicolor (as L. polycarpus) has been reported from Alabama (A. R. Diamond 2016) and Michigan (E. G. Voss and A. A. Reznicek 2012). Lupinus micranthus Douglas (1829, not Gussone 1828) is an illegitimate name that pertains here. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Lupinus arbustus is known from the Cascade and Klamath ranges, San Gabriel Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and the Great Basin area in California; Owyhee Desert in Idaho and Oregon; eastern Washington and western Montana; and western Juab and Tooele counties, Utah. Lupinus arbustus is separated from the argenteus group by the presence of hairs on the corolla wings. Recognition of subspecies and varieties of this already complex species leads to precarious separation among taxa. Lupinus variegatus A. Heller (1912, not Poiret 1814) is an illegitimate name that pertains here. (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. bicolor subsp. marginatus, L. bicolor var. micranthus, L. bicolor subsp. microphyllus, L. bicolor var. microphyllus, L. bicolor subsp. pipersmithii, L. bicolor var. pipersmithii, L. bicolor var. rostratus, L. bicolor subsp. tridentatus, L. bicolor var. tridentatus, L. bicolor var. trifidus, L. bicolor subsp. umbellatus, L. bicolor var. umbellatus, L. congdonii, L. polycarpus | L. arbustus subsp. calcaratus, L. arbustus var. montanus, L. arbustus subsp. neolaxiflorus, L. arbustus subsp. pseudoparviflorus, L. arbustus subsp. silvicola, L. caesius, L. caudatus var. submanens, L. caudatus var. subtenellus, L. elegantulus, L. inyoensis var. demissus, L. laxiflorus var. calcaratus, L. laxiflorus var. cognatus, L. laxiflorus var. elmerianus, L. laxiflorus var. lyleianus, L. laxiflorus var. pseudoparviflorus, L. laxiflorus var. silvicola, L. laxiflorus var. villosulus, L. lyleianus, L. mucronulatus var. umatillensis, L. multitinctus, L. noldekeae, L. proteanus, L. pseudoparviflorus, L. silvicola, L. wenatchensis, L. yakimensis |
Name authority | Lindley: Bot. Reg. 13: plate 1109. (1827) | Douglas: Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 15: plate 1230. (1829) |
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