Lupinus microcarpus |
Lupinus fulcratus |
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chick lupine, wide-bannered lupine |
green stipuled lupine, greenstipule lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, 1–8 dm, sparsely to densely pubescent. | Herbs, perennial, 3–8 dm, green, spreading-hairy. | ||||||||
Stems | ascending or erect, branched near base or middle, or unbranched, hollow, at least near base. |
erect, unbranched or branched. |
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Leaves | cauline; petiole 3–15 cm; leaflets 5–9(–11), blades 10–50 × 2–12 mm, adaxial surface glabrous. |
cauline; stipules green, leaflike, lanceolate, 6–30 mm; petiole 3–6 cm; leaflets 6–9, blades 20–60 × 4–8 mm, adaxial surface pubescent. |
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Racemes | 4–60 cm; flowers in crowded to widely spaced whorls. |
3–20 cm; flowers ± whorled. |
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Peduncles | 2–30 cm; bracts persistent, reflexed, 3.5–12 mm. |
1–11 cm; bracts deciduous, 4–10 mm. |
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Pedicels | 0.5–5 mm. |
2–7 mm. |
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Flowers | 8–18 mm; calyx appendages usually absent, sometimes present, abaxial lobe 5–11 mm, adaxial lobe 2–6 mm; corolla white to dark yellow, pink to dark rose, or lavender to purple, lower wing margins sometimes ciliate, upper margins usually ciliate near claw, upper keel margins usually ciliate near claw, lower margins sometimes ciliate but not as densely. |
10–14 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 5–12 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 5–10 mm; corolla blue, banner patch white, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, usually glabrous, sparsely hairy near middle of adaxial margin. |
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Legumes | 1–1.8 cm, pubescent. |
2–4 cm, silky. |
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Cotyledons | persistent or deciduous (leaving circular scar), disclike, sessile. |
deciduous, petiolate. |
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Seeds | 2, tan to brown, usually mottled, ridged or smooth. |
2–6, beige, mottled brown, 4–5 mm. |
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Lupinus microcarpus |
Lupinus fulcratus |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Sep. | |||||||||
Habitat | In mixed conifer forests, on granitic soils. | |||||||||
Elevation | 1500–3000 m. (4900–9800 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
w North America; nw Mexico; South America
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CA
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). Lupinus microcarpus is highly variable and with varieties intergrading. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Lupinus fulcratus is found at higher elevations in the Sierra Nevada. It closely resembles L. andersonii except for the leaflike stipules. Lupinus ionewalkerae C. P. Smith, L. lingulae C. P. Smith, and L. cymbaegressus C. P. Smith may be hybrids with L. andersonii (P. A. Munz 1959). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus | ||||||||
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Synonyms | L. albicaulis var. fulcratus, L. andersonii var. fulcratus, L. beaneanus, L. finitus, L. fraxinetorum | |||||||||
Name authority | Sims: Bot. Mag. 50: plate 2413. (1823) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 159. (1897) | ||||||||
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