Lupinus hyacinthinus |
Lupinus concinnus |
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hyacinth lupine, San Jacinto lupine |
bajada lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 4–10 dm, gray becoming green, sparsely hairy. | Herbs, annual, 1–3 dm, spreading-pubescent. |
Stems | erect, unbranched or branched distally. |
ascending, tufted, or erect, branched or unbranched. |
Leaves | cauline; stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 5–16 mm; petiole 3–6 cm; leaflets 7–12, blades 30–80 × 4–8 mm, adaxial surface sparsely pubescent. |
cauline; petiole 2–7 cm, spreading-pubescent; leaflets 5–9, blades 10–30 × 1.5–8 mm, surfaces pubescent. |
Racemes | 4–22 cm; flowers ± whorled. |
1–18 cm; flowers spirally arranged, solitary axillary flowers also sometimes present. |
Peduncles | 3–12 cm; bracts deciduous, 5–9 mm. |
erect, 2–8 cm; bracts persistent, straight, 2.5–4 mm. |
Pedicels | 2–6 mm. |
0.7–2 mm. |
Flowers | 13–16 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 7–11 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–10 mm; corolla light blue to purple, banner patch yellowish to white, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, banner ovate, wings wide, covering keel tip. |
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. |
Legumes | 3–4 cm, silky. |
1–1.5 cm, pubescent. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | 3–7, beige, speckled brown, 4–6 mm. |
3–5. |
2n | = 48. |
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Lupinus hyacinthinus |
Lupinus concinnus |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Dry slopes, under yellow pines and white fir. | Open or disturbed areas, often following burns. |
Elevation | 2000–3500 m. (6600–11500 ft.) | 0–1600 m. (0–5200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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AZ; CA; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora)
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Discussion | Lupinus hyacinthinus is found in southern California in the San Gabriel, San Jacinto, and Santa Rosa mountains and on the Sierra San Pedro Mártir in Baja California. It is distinguished from its close relatives by its larger flowers in combination with green (versus gray or dull green) leaves. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus |
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Synonyms | L. albicaulis var. hyacinthinus, L. andersonii var. sublinearis, L. formosus var. hyacinthinus | 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 |
Name authority | Greene: Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 2: 85. (1910) | J. Agardh: Syn. Lupini, 6, plate 1, fig. 1. (1835) |
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