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Heller's Mount Eddy lupine, Mount Eddy lupine, Mt. Eddy lupine

Habit Herbs, perennial, less than 1 dm, silver-silky.
Stems

± prostrate or ascending, branched.

Leaves

basal (clustered near base);

stipules 4–5 mm;

petiole 2–4.5 cm;

leaflets 6–8, blades 10–20 × 2–4 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

Racemes

2–7 cm;

flowers in few whorls, widely separated.

Peduncles

5–10 cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 4–5 mm.

Pedicels

2–4 mm.

Flowers

9–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe obscurely 3-toothed, 5–6 mm, adaxial lobe notched, 4–5 mm;

corolla ± violet, banner patch yellow, banner usually hairy abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate.

Legumes

2–3 cm, pilose.

Cotyledons

deciduous, petiolate.

Seeds

1 or 2.

Lupinus lapidicola

Phenology Flowering Jul.
Habitat Dry, granite gravel, yellow pine and subalpine forests, granitic or serpentine soils.
Elevation 1500–3000 m. (4900–9800 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Lupinus lapidicola is relatively rare and is known only from the Klamath Ranges in northwestern California.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus
Sibling taxa
L. adsurgens, L. affinis, L. albicaulis, L. albifrons, L. andersonii, L. angustiflorus, L. antoninus, L. apertus, L. arboreus, L. arbustus, L. arcticus, L. argenteus, L. arizonicus, L. benthamii, L. bicolor, L. brevicaulis, L. breweri, L. cervinus, L. chamissonis, L. citrinus, L. concinnus, L. constancei, L. covillei, L. croceus, L. dalesiae, L. diffusus, L. duranii, L. elatus, L. elmeri, L. excubitus, L. flavoculatus, L. formosus, L. fulcratus, L. gracilentus, L. grayi, L. guadalupensis, L. havardii, L. hirsutissimus, L. huachucanus, L. hyacinthinus, L. kingii, L. kuschei, L. latifolius, L. lepidus, L. leucophyllus, L. littoralis, L. longifolius, L. ludovicianus, L. luteolus, L. magnificus, L. malacophyllus, L. microcarpus, L. nanus, L. neomexicanus, L. nevadensis, L. nipomensis, L. nootkatensis, L. obtusilobus, L. odoratus, L. onustus, L. oreganus, L. pachylobus, L. padrecrowleyi, L. peirsonii, L. perennis, L. polyphyllus, L. pratensis, L. pusillus, L. rivularis, L. sabineanus, L. sericatus, L. sericeus, L. shockleyi, L. sierrae-blancae, L. sparsiflorus, L. spectabilis, L. stiversii, L. subcarnosus, L. succulentus, L. sulphureus, L. texensis, L. tidestromii, L. tracyi, L. truncatus, L. uncialis, L. villosus, L. westianus
Name authority A. Heller: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 51: 306. (1924)
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