Lupinus concinnus |
Lupinus dalesiae |
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bajada lupine |
Quincy lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, 1–3 dm, spreading-pubescent. | Herbs, perennial, 2–5 dm, long-white-spreading-hairy. |
Stems | ascending, tufted, or erect, branched or unbranched. |
ascending or erect, branched. |
Leaves | cauline; petiole 2–7 cm, spreading-pubescent; leaflets 5–9, blades 10–30 × 1.5–8 mm, surfaces pubescent. |
cauline; stipules 6–16 mm; petiole 1–3 cm; leaflets 6–9, blades 20–45 × 3–8 mm, adaxial surface tomentose, hairs silvery. |
Racemes | 1–18 cm; flowers spirally arranged, solitary axillary flowers also sometimes present. |
5–16 cm; flowers ± whorled. |
Peduncles | erect, 2–8 cm; bracts persistent, straight, 2.5–4 mm. |
2–5 cm; bracts deciduous, 5–9 mm. |
Pedicels | 0.7–2 mm. |
2–5.5 mm. |
Flowers | 5–12 mm; calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft; corolla usually pink to purple, rarely white, banner spot white or yellowish, keel usually glabrous, rarely with few, minute cilia on lower margins. |
9–12 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 3–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 4–7 mm; corolla usually yellow, banner hairy abaxially, keel ± glabrous. |
Legumes | 1–1.5 cm, pubescent. |
2–3 cm, strigose. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | 3–5. |
3–5, tan, 3–5 mm. |
2n | = 48. |
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Lupinus concinnus |
Lupinus dalesiae |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering May–Aug. |
Habitat | Open or disturbed areas, often following burns. | Open, dry areas in pine forests. |
Elevation | 0–1600 m. (0–5200 ft.) | (800–)1000–2500 m. ((2600–)3300–8200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora)
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CA
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Discussion | In Texas, Lupinus concinnus is known from the trans-Pecos region; in California it is more common in the central and southern areas. Lupinus concinnus is a highly variable, predominantly self-pollinated complex and the named varieties cannot be consistently segregated. Desert plants with linear, coarsely hairy leaflets and few, minute cilia on lower keel margins (at times recognized as var. desertorum) may be confused with L. sparsiflorus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Lupinus dalesiae is known only from the high Sierra Nevada in Plumas County. It is distinctive with its white pubescence, yellow flowers, and banner that is hairy abaxially. P. A. Munz (1959) treated Lupinus dalesiae as a synonym of L. adsurgens var. undulatus C. P. Smith, but L. adsurgens has a banner that is glabrous abaxially. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus |
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Synonyms | L. agardhianus, L. concinnus var. agardhianus, L. concinnus var. desertorum, L. concinnus subsp. optatus, L. concinnus var. optatus, L. concinnus subsp. orcuttii, L. concinnus var. orcuttii, L. concinnus var. pallidus, L. pallidus | L. formosus var. clemensiae |
Name authority | J. Agardh: Syn. Lupini, 6, plate 1, fig. 1. (1835) | Eastwood: Leafl. W. Bot. 2: 266. (1940) — (as dalesae) |
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