Lupinus breweri var. grandiflorus |
Lupinus breweri |
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Matted lupine, showy Brewer's lupine |
Brewer's lupine, Matted lupine |
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Habit | Herbs or subshrubs with caudex above ground, matted. | 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 6–11 mm. |
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Racemes | 2–10 cm. |
dense, 1–10 cm; flowers whorled. |
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Peduncles | 2–8 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–)9–11 mm; banner ± silky abaxially, keel strongly ciliate. |
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. grandiflorus |
Lupinus breweri |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | |||||||||
Habitat | Volcanic sand. | |||||||||
Elevation | 2000–3500 m. (6600–11500 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA |
w United States
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Discussion | Variety grandiflorus is known from throughout the Sierra Nevada and in the San Bernardino and White mountains. (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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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | L. breweri var. clokeyanus, L. campbelliae, L. campbelliae var. bernardinus, L. monensis, L. tegeticulatus var. grandiflorus | |||||||||
Name authority | C. P. Smith in W. L. Jepson: Man. Fl. Pl. Calif., 526. (1925) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 334. (1868) | ||||||||
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