Lupinus cervinus |
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Santa Lucia lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 1.5–3 dm, gray-green, spreading-hairy. |
Stems | erect, clustered, unbranched. |
Leaves | cauline, clustered near base; stipules 5–6 mm; petiole 13–15 cm; leaflets 4–8, blades 40–80 × 10–30 mm, adaxial surface long spreading-hairy. |
Racemes | open, to 20 cm; flowers whorled or spirally arranged. |
Peduncles | 13–20 cm; bracts deciduous, 3–4 mm. |
Pedicels | 3–6 mm. |
Flowers | 14–16 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed, 8–10 mm, adaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed, 6–7 mm; corolla light blue, pink, or pale yellow, often drying straw-colored, banner patch yellow, banner ± hairy abaxially, lower keel margins ciliate near claw, adaxial margin ciliate throughout. |
Legumes | 3–6 cm, silky. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | 4–8, light brown with brown line or mottled tan, 2–4 mm. |
Lupinus cervinus |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Dry sites in forests, broad-leaved upland forests, chaparral, lower montane coniferous forests. |
Elevation | 300–1500 m. (1000–4900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA |
Discussion | Lupinus cervinus is known from the Santa Lucia Mountains in Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Name authority | Kellogg: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2: 229, fig. 73. (1863) |
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