Lupinus brevicaulis |
Lupinus texensis |
|
---|---|---|
sand lupine, short stem blue lupine, short-stem lupine |
Texas bluebonnet, Texas lupine |
|
Habit | Herbs, annual, usually less than 1 dm, pubescent, hairs more than 1 mm. | Herbs, annual, 1.5–4 dm, pubescent, hair appressed or ascending. |
Stems | very short, tufted, branched. |
ascending or erect, branched. |
Leaves | cauline, crowded near base; stipules well developed; petiole 1–6 cm; leaflets (3 or)5–9, blades 8–20 × 2–9 mm, adaxial surface glabrous. |
cauline, crowded near base; petiole 2–6 cm; leaflets 5 or 6(or 7), blades 10–25 × 6–12 mm, adaxial surface glabrous. |
Racemes | dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm; flowers spirally arranged, crowded. |
2–12 cm; flowers spirally arranged. |
Peduncles | 1–8(–10) cm; bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm. |
3–6 cm; bracts deciduous, 2–3 mm. |
Pedicels | 0.3–1.5 mm. |
4–6 mm. |
Flowers | 6–8 mm; calyx abaxial lobe entire or shallowly cleft, ± 6 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 3 mm, less than 1/2 as long as abaxial; corolla bright blue, banner spot white or yellow, keel glabrous. |
10–13 mm; calyx 6–8 mm, abaxial lobe entire or cleft, 4–5 mm, adaxial lobe cleft, 2–3 mm, hairs silvery; corolla usually dark blue, rarely white, banner spot bright white, keel glabrous, wings flat. |
Legumes | not undulate, 1 cm, thinly pilose to coarsely hirsute. |
2.5–3.5 cm, white silky-villous. |
Cotyledons | persistent, disclike, sessile. |
deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | 1 or 2, smooth. |
4 or 5. |
2n | = 36. |
|
Lupinus brevicaulis |
Lupinus texensis |
|
Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Sandy washes, open areas, grasslands, pinyon pine-juniper forests, creosote bush scrub, mesquite. | Prairies, open fields, pastures, roadsides. |
Elevation | 300–2400 m. (1000–7900 ft.) | 0–600 m. (0–2000 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NM; NV; OR; UT; WY; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora)
|
FL; LA; OK; TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo Léon, Tamaulipas)
|
Discussion | Lupinus brevicaulis resembles L. flavoculatus except that its flowers are smaller. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Lupinus texensis is introduced in Florida in Alachua and Pinellas counties. In Texas, it is widespread in the southern two-thirds of the state. (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 | ||
Name authority | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 53, plate 7, figs. 1–4. (1871) | Hooker: Bot. Mag. 63: plate 3492. (1836) |
Web links |