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Ashland lupine, Mt. Ashland lupine

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branch tidy lupine

Habit Herbs 7–12 cm, hairs long-dense, appressed, silvery. Herbs 13–30 cm, shaggy.
Stems

absent.

decumbent to erect.

Leaves

basal;

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

some basal, mostly cauline;

leaflet blades usually 5–15(–30) mm, surfaces hairy to shaggy.

Racemes

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

2–10 cm, exserted beyond leaves, open.

Peduncles

(3–)5–7.5 cm;

bracts 5 mm.

3–5 cm;

bracts 4–9 mm.

Pedicels

1 mm.

slender, 1.5–3 mm.

Flowers

in 9–13 whorls, 9–12 mm;

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

corolla blue-violet.

fragrant, in (2 or)3–7 whorls, ± well spaced, 7–9(–12) mm;

corolla blue, banner patch white to yellow.

Legumes

7–11 mm, pubescent.

Seeds

2–4.

2n

= 48.

= 48.

Lupinus lepidus var. ashlandensis

Lupinus lepidus var. ramosus

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug. Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Alpine slopes. Open stony crests, gravelly hillsides, subalpine.
Elevation 2100–2300 m. (6900–7500 ft.) 2300–4000 m. (7500–13100 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
OR
from FNA
CA
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 ramosus is known from the central and southern Sierra Nevada and in the Sweetwater and White mountains.

(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. confertus, L. lepidus var. culbertsonii, L. lepidus var. cusickii, L. lepidus var. lepidus, L. lepidus var. lobbii, L. lepidus var. sellulus, L. lepidus var. utahensis
Synonyms L. aridus subsp. ashlandensis L. brunneomaculatus, L. crassulus, L. culbertsonii subsp. hypolasius, L. danaus var. bicolor, L. hypolasius
Name authority (B. J. Cox) Isely: Native Natural. Legum. U.S., 705. (1998) Jepson: Fl. Calif. 2: 268. (1936)
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