Lupinus citrinus |
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fragrant lupine, orangeflower lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, 1–6 dm, hairs soft, white, sometimes matted, to 2 mm. | ||||
Stems | ascending or erect, branched or unbranched. |
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Leaves | cauline; petiole 2–7 cm; leaflets 6–9, blades 15–35 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface densely pubescent to tomentose. |
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Racemes | 5–25 cm; flowers spirally arranged, sometimes appearing whorled proximally. |
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Peduncles | 1–9 cm; bracts deciduous, 2.5–5 mm. |
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Pedicels | 2.5–5 mm, becoming recurved. |
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Flowers | 8.5–12 mm; calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, cleft; corolla golden yellow or white, lower keel margins short-ciliate near claw. |
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Legumes | 1–2 cm, glabrous or glabrate. |
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Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
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Seeds | 3–8, resembling bits of granite. |
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Lupinus citrinus |
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Distribution |
California |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Lupinus citrinus is known from the central Sierra Nevada Foothills. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | ||||
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Name authority | Kellogg: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 7: 93. (1877) | ||||
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