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branch tidy lupine

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Mt. Ashland lupine

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

decumbent to erect.

absent.

Leaves

some basal, mostly cauline;

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

basal;

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

Racemes

2–10 cm, exserted beyond leaves, open.

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

Peduncles

3–5 cm;

bracts 4–9 mm.

(3–)5–7.5 cm;

bracts 5 mm.

Pedicels

slender, 1.5–3 mm.

1 mm.

Flowers

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

corolla blue, banner patch white to yellow.

in 9–13 whorls, 9–12 mm;

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

corolla blue-violet.

Legumes

7–11 mm, pubescent.

Seeds

2–4.

2n

= 48.

= 48.

Lupinus lepidus var. ramosus

Lupinus lepidus var. ashlandensis

Phenology Flowering Jul–Aug. Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat Open stony crests, gravelly hillsides, subalpine. Alpine slopes.
Elevation 2300–4000 m. (7500–13100 ft.) 2100–2300 m. (6900–7500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
from FNA
OR
Discussion

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.)

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.)

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