Lupinus gracilentus |
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green slender lupine, slender lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 2–8 dm, green, puberulent to hairy. |
Stems | erect or slightly spreading, clustered, unbranched or branched distally. |
Leaves | cauline; stipules 10–15 mm; proximal petioles (3–)5–14 cm, distal ones (1–)2–4 cm; leaflets 5–8, blades 35–80 × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface pubescent. |
Racemes | 6–20 cm; flowers in 4–8 distinct whorls. |
Peduncles | 6–12 cm; bracts semideciduous, 4–10 mm. |
Pedicels | 2–4 mm. |
Flowers | 8–18 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 2 or 3-toothed or entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 7 mm; corolla blue, banner patch white to yellowish, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial keel sparsely ciliate. |
Legumes | 2–3 cm, densely hairy. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | 6–8. |
Lupinus gracilentus |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. |
Habitat | Open moist sites, subalpine forests. |
Elevation | 2500–3500 m. (8200–11500 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA |
Discussion | Lupinus gracilentus is known from the southern Sierra Nevada (Rock Creek) in Inyo and Mono counties northward to Yosemite National Park. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Name authority | Greene: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 44: 365. (1893) |
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