Lupinus breweri var. breweri |
Lupinus breweri |
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Brewer's lupine |
Brewer's lupine, Matted lupine |
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Habit | Herbs or subshrubs with caudex usually below ground, forming a mat. | Herbs or subshrubs, perennial, to 2 dm, matted or tufted, silvery-silky. | ||||||||
Stems | prostrate, branched, base ± woody. |
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Leaves | cauline, clustered near base; stipules 2–5 mm; petiole 1–5(–6) cm; leaflets 5–10, blades 3–20 × 2–6 mm, adaxial surface pubescent. |
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Leaflet | blades 6–20 mm. |
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Racemes | 1–2 cm. |
dense, 1–10 cm; flowers whorled. |
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Peduncles | 1–3 cm. |
1–3(–8) cm; bracts deciduous, 3–5 mm. |
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Pedicels | 1–3(–4) mm. |
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Flowers | 6–9 mm; banner glabrous abaxially, keel ± glabrous. |
4–11 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 4–6 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 4–7 mm; corolla blue to violet, banner patch white or yellow, banner glabrous or densely hairy abaxially, keel straight, abaxial margins glabrous, adaxial margin glabrous or ciliate. |
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Legumes | 1–2 cm, silky. |
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Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
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Seeds | 3 or 4, mottled tan, brown, 3–4 mm. |
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Lupinus breweri var. breweri |
Lupinus breweri |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | |||||||||
Habitat | Dry, stony slopes and benches, open subalpine to alpine montane forests. | |||||||||
Elevation | 1000–4000 m. (3300–13100 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA; NV; OR |
w United States
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Discussion | Variety breweri is known from Mount Pinos through the Sierra Nevada and Siskiyou Mountains in California, to southern Oregon (Mt. Ashland, Jackson County), and western Nevada in Washoe County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | L. breweri var. parvulus | |||||||||
Name authority | unknown | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 334. (1868) | ||||||||
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