Lupinus hyacinthinus |
Lupinus formosus |
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hyacinth lupine, San Jacinto lupine |
summer lupine, western lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 4–10 dm, gray becoming green, sparsely hairy. | Herbs, perennial, 12–8 dm, densely hairy to tomentose, gray to silver; rhizomes 3–7 mm diam. | ||||
Stems | erect, unbranched or branched distally. |
ascending, spreading, or erect, branched. |
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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; stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 4–15 mm; petiole 2–7 cm; leaflets 7–9, blades 25–70 × 6–14 mm, adaxial surface pubescent. |
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Racemes | 4–22 cm; flowers ± whorled. |
10–30 cm; flowers ± whorled. |
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Peduncles | 3–12 cm; bracts deciduous, 5–9 mm. |
3–7 cm; bracts deciduous, 4–14 mm. |
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Pedicels | 2–6 mm. |
3–7 mm. |
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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. |
10–18 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 8–12 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 7–11 mm; corolla purple, banner patch white or not, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, banner ovate, wings wide, covering keel tip. |
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Legumes | 3–4 cm, silky. |
3–4.5 cm, hairy. |
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Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
deciduous, petiolate. |
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Seeds | 3–7, beige, speckled brown, 4–6 mm. |
5–7, mottled brown, 4–7 mm. |
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Lupinus hyacinthinus |
Lupinus formosus |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | |||||
Habitat | Dry slopes, under yellow pines and white fir. | |||||
Elevation | 2000–3500 m. (6600–11500 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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nw Mexico; California
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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.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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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 | |||||
Name authority | Greene: Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 2: 85. (1910) | Greene: Fl. Francisc., 42. (1891) | ||||
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