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long leaf bush lupine

Habit Shrubs, 10–15 dm, usually greenish, soft-short-hairy.
Stems

erect, clustered, branched.

Leaves

cauline;

stipules 5–14 mm;

petiole 4–7(–10) cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 30–60 × 6–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

Racemes

20–45 cm;

flowers ± whorled or not.

Peduncles

5–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–11 mm.

Pedicels

5–10 mm.

Flowers

12–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 10–15 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 8–10 mm;

corolla violet to blue, banner patch yellowish to white or absent, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

Legumes

dark, 4–6 cm, hairy.

Cotyledons

deciduous, petiolate.

Seeds

6–8, brownish to gray, 5–6 mm.

Lupinus longifolius

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Coastal sage scrub, chaparral, coastal bluffs, inland canyons.
Elevation 0–500 m. (0–1600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion

Lupinus longifolius occurs in southwestern California and adjacent Baja California.

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

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus
Sibling taxa
L. adsurgens, L. affinis, L. albicaulis, L. albifrons, L. andersonii, L. angustiflorus, L. antoninus, L. apertus, L. arboreus, L. arbustus, L. arcticus, L. argenteus, L. arizonicus, L. benthamii, L. bicolor, L. brevicaulis, L. breweri, L. cervinus, L. chamissonis, L. citrinus, L. concinnus, L. constancei, L. covillei, L. croceus, L. dalesiae, L. diffusus, L. duranii, L. elatus, L. elmeri, L. excubitus, L. flavoculatus, L. formosus, L. fulcratus, L. gracilentus, L. grayi, L. guadalupensis, L. havardii, L. hirsutissimus, L. huachucanus, L. hyacinthinus, L. kingii, L. kuschei, L. lapidicola, L. latifolius, L. lepidus, L. leucophyllus, L. littoralis, L. ludovicianus, L. luteolus, L. magnificus, L. malacophyllus, L. microcarpus, L. nanus, L. neomexicanus, L. nevadensis, L. nipomensis, L. nootkatensis, L. obtusilobus, L. odoratus, L. onustus, L. oreganus, L. pachylobus, L. padrecrowleyi, L. peirsonii, L. perennis, L. polyphyllus, L. pratensis, L. pusillus, L. rivularis, L. sabineanus, L. sericatus, L. sericeus, L. shockleyi, L. sierrae-blancae, L. sparsiflorus, L. spectabilis, L. stiversii, L. subcarnosus, L. succulentus, L. sulphureus, L. texensis, L. tidestromii, L. tracyi, L. truncatus, L. uncialis, L. villosus, L. westianus
Synonyms L. chamissonis var. longifolius, L. albifrons var. longifolius, L. mollisifolius
Name authority (S. Watson) Abrams: Fl. Los Angeles, 209. (1904)
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