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Lupinus lepidus var. lobbii
Photo is of parent taxon

elegant lupine, Lobb's lupine, prostrate lupine
Habit Herbs to 13 cm, hairy to shaggy.
Stems

absent or shortly caulescent, then prostrate and matted.
Leaves

usually basal;

leaflet blades 5–10 mm, surfaces hairy to shaggy abaxially, greenish and sometimes glabrate adaxially.
Racemes

2–8 cm, exserted beyond leaves, ± dense.
Peduncles

5–8(–13) cm;

bracts 5–6 mm.
Pedicels

1–2 mm.
Flowers

in 4–7 whorls, 6–10 mm;

corolla usually violet, rarely white, banner patch white.
2n

= 48.

Lupinus lepidus var. lobbii
Phenology Flowering Jun–Sep.
Habitat Dry rocks, gravelly ridges, meadows, montane and subalpine.
Elevation (1600–)2000–3500 m. ((5200–)6600–11500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; NV; OR; WA; BC
Discussion

Variety lobbii is found in British Columbia and southward through the Cascades of Washington and Oregon to the high mountains of the North Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, and White Mountains in California. It is known also from the Basin and Range peaks in Idaho and Nevada.

Lupinus pinetorum A. Heller (1910, not M. E. Jones 1898) is an illegitimate name that pertains here.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus > Lupinus lepidus
Sibling taxa
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. ramosus, L. lepidus var. sellulus, L. lepidus var. utahensis
Synonyms L. aridus var. lobbii, L. alpinus, L. aridus var. washoensis, L. fruticulosus, L. lobbii, L. lyallii, L. lyallii var. danaus, L. lyallii var. fruticulosus, L. lyallii var. lobbii, L. lyallii subsp. washoensis, L. minutifolius, L. paulinius, L. perditorum, L. rubro-soli, L. sellulus var. lobbii, L. washoensis
Name authority (S. Watson) C. L. Hitchcock in C. L. Hitchcock et al.: Vasc. Pl. Pacif. N.W. 3: 315. (1961)
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