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Ashland lupine, Mt. Ashland lupine

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cluster tidy lupine

Habit Herbs 7–12 cm, hairs long-dense, appressed, silvery. Herbs 25–60 cm, hairy.
Stems

absent.

decumbent to erect.

Leaves

basal;

leaflet blades 10–20 mm, surfaces with long, dense, silvery-appressed hairs.

cauline;

leaflet blade 15–30 mm, surfaces hairy.

Racemes

3–8 cm (not including peduncle), slightly exceeding leaves, dense.

(5–)12–30 cm, exserted beyond leaves, dense.

Peduncles

(3–)5–7.5 cm;

bracts 5 mm.

3–13 cm;

bracts 5–14 mm.

Pedicels

1 mm.

stout, ± 1–1.5 mm.

Flowers

in 9–13 whorls, 9–12 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe 2–3 mm, adaxial lobe 5 mm;

corolla blue-violet.

in 9–15 whorls, 7–9 mm, dense;

corolla blue or pink to lavender, banner patch yellowish fading brown to red.

Legumes

7–11 mm, pubescent.

Seeds

2–4.

2n

= 48.

= 48.

Lupinus lepidus var. ashlandensis

Lupinus lepidus var. confertus

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug. Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat Alpine slopes. Meadows, vernally moist areas in pine forests and sagebrush.
Elevation 2100–2300 m. (6900–7500 ft.) (300–)1500–2500(–3200) m. ((1000–)4900–8200(–10500) ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
OR
from FNA
CA; NV
Discussion

Variety ashlandensis is known only from Mount Ashland in the Siskiyou Mountains of Jackson County.

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

Variety confertus is found in Douglas, Esmeralda, Lyon, Mineral, Ormsby, and Washoe counties in Nevada, and in the high Cascades, high Sierra Nevada, Transverse Ranges, Great Basin province, and into the desert mountains in California.

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

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus > Lupinus lepidus Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus > Lupinus lepidus
Sibling taxa
L. lepidus var. aridus, L. lepidus var. confertus, L. lepidus var. culbertsonii, L. lepidus var. cusickii, L. lepidus var. lepidus, L. lepidus var. lobbii, L. lepidus var. ramosus, L. lepidus var. sellulus, L. lepidus var. utahensis
L. lepidus var. aridus, L. lepidus var. ashlandensis, L. lepidus var. culbertsonii, L. lepidus var. cusickii, L. lepidus var. lepidus, L. lepidus var. lobbii, L. lepidus var. ramosus, L. lepidus var. sellulus, L. lepidus var. utahensis
Synonyms L. aridus subsp. ashlandensis L. confertus, L. aridus var. torreyi, L. confertus var. wrightii, L. lepidus var. torreyi, L. torreyi
Name authority (B. J. Cox) Isely: Native Natural. Legum. U.S., 705. (1998) (Kellogg) C. P. Smith: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 51: 304. (1924)
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