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Matted Brewer's lupine, Matted lupine

Habit Herbs or subshrubs with caudex usually above ground, forming a dense tuft.
Leaflet

blades 3–5 mm.

Racemes

2–3 cm.

Peduncles

1–2 cm.

Flowers

4–6(–7) mm;

banner and keel ± glabrous.

Lupinus breweri var. bryoides

Phenology Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Open subalpine to alpine montane forests.
Elevation 2500–4000 m. (8200–13100 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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Discussion

Variety bryoides is known from the western Transverse Ranges in Ventura County and the central and southern Sierra Nevada (Inyo to Tulare counties) to the White Mountains in California, and Mineral County to the Sweetwater, Wassuk, and White ranges in Nevada.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus > Lupinus breweri
Sibling taxa
L. breweri var. breweri, L. breweri var. grandiflorus
Synonyms L. tegeticulatus
Name authority C. P. Smith in W. L. Jepson: Man. Fl. Pl. Calif., 526. (1925)
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