Lupinus magnificus |
Lupinus hirsutissimus |
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magnificent lupine, Panamint Mountain lupine |
stinging annual lupine, stinging lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 6–12 dm, white-woolly. | Herbs, annual, 2–10 dm, with short, appressed, stiff, pustulate, stinging hairs to 3.5 mm. | ||||||||
Stems | erect, branched at base, hairs 1–3 mm, sharp, stiff. |
ascending or erect, branched or unbranched. |
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Leaves | usually basal; stipules 10–24 mm; petiole 6–30 cm; leaflets 5–9, blades 20–55 × 6–15 mm, adaxial surface densely woolly. |
cauline; petiole 4–9 cm; leaflets 5–8, blades 20–50 × 10–20 mm, adaxial surface hirsute. |
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Racemes | 10–45 cm; flowers whorled or not. |
15–40 cm; flowers spirally arranged. |
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Peduncles | 10–50 cm; bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm. |
5–8 cm; bracts usually persistent, 4–5 mm. |
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Pedicels | 2–8 mm. |
2–5 mm. |
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Flowers | fragrant, 10–18 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–11 mm, adaxial lobe, 2-toothed, 5–9 mm; corolla lavender to rose, banner patch yellow turning purple, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip. |
12–18 mm; calyx 6–10 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft; corolla deep pink to magenta, drying purplish, banner spot white becoming magenta, lower keel margins densely ciliate from middle to near claw. |
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Legumes | 3–7 cm, densely hairy. |
2–4 cm, coarsely hairy. |
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Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
deciduous, petiolate. |
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Seeds | 5–8, tan, 3–4 mm. |
3–6. |
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Lupinus magnificus |
Lupinus hirsutissimus |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | |||||||||
Habitat | Dry, rocky areas, burns. | |||||||||
Elevation | 0–1400 m. (0–4600 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
California
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Lupinus hirsutissimus occurs in the central and southern coast regions into the adjacent mountains and Channel Islands. Plants are often greater than one meter in height after fires. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. | ||||||||
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Name authority | M. E. Jones: Contr. W. Bot. 8: 26. (1898) | Bentham: Trans. Hort. Soc. London, ser. 2, 1: 411. (1835) | ||||||||
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