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Panamint Mountain lupine, Panamint Mountains. lupine

magnificent lupine, Panamint Mountain lupine

Habit Herbs, perennial, 6–12 dm, white-woolly.
Stems

erect, branched at base, hairs 1–3 mm, sharp, stiff.

Leaves

usually basal;

stipules 10–24 mm;

petiole 6–30 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 20–55 × 6–15 mm, adaxial surface densely woolly.

Racemes

30–45 cm.

10–45 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

Peduncles

10–50 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm.

Pedicels

stout, 4 mm.

2–8 mm.

Flowers

(13–)16–18 mm.

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.

Legumes

3–7 cm, densely hairy.

Cotyledons

deciduous, petiolate.

Seeds

5–8, tan, 3–4 mm.

Keel

petals slightly curved.

Lupinus magnificus var. magnificus

Lupinus magnificus

Phenology Flowering May–Jun(–Jul).
Habitat Desert scrub, pinyon and juni­per woodlands, upper montane coniferous forests.
Elevation 1000–2600 m. (3300–8500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
from USDA
California
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[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety magnificus is known from the Great Basin and Mojave desert ranges in Inyo County.

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

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

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

Key
1. Flowers (13–)16–18 mm.
var. magnificus
1. Flowers 10–13 mm.
→ 2
2. Keel petals curved; racemes 20–40 cm.
var. glarecola
2. Keel petals straight; racemes 10 cm.
var. hesperius
Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus > Lupinus magnificus Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus
Sibling taxa
L. magnificus var. glarecola, L. magnificus var. hesperius
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. longifolius, L. ludovicianus, L. luteolus, 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
Subordinate taxa
L. magnificus var. glarecola, L. magnificus var. hesperius, L. magnificus var. magnificus
Name authority unknown M. E. Jones: Contr. W. Bot. 8: 26. (1898)
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