Lupinus lapidicola |
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Heller's Mount Eddy lupine, Mount Eddy lupine, Mt. Eddy lupine |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul. |
Habitat | Dry, granite gravel, yellow pine and subalpine forests, granitic or serpentine soils. |
Elevation | 1500–3000 m. (4900–9800 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA |
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. |
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Name authority | A. Heller: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 51: 306. (1924) |
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