Lupinus onustus |
Lupinus apertus |
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northern lupine, Plumas lupine |
naked lupine, summit lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 2–3 dm, green, silky; rhizomatous, from slender underground rootstock. | Herbs, perennial, 2–6 dm, green, puberulent to sparsely appressed-hairy. |
Stems | short-decumbent, clustered, unbranched. |
erect, branched. |
Leaves | cauline, clustered near base; stipules 8–10 mm; petiole (5–)8–13 cm; leaflets 5–9, blades oblanceolate, 15–50 × 4–10 mm, abaxial surface silky-hairy, adaxial surface glabrous. |
cauline; stipules 5–10 mm; petiole 2–5 cm; leaflets 7–9, blades 25–55 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent. |
Racemes | 5–15 cm; flowers not whorled. |
8–11 cm; flowers spirally arranged to whorled. |
Peduncles | 4–8 cm; bracts deciduous, 3–4 mm. |
1–8 cm; bracts deciduous, 3.5–5 mm. |
Pedicels | 3–5 mm. |
3–6 mm. |
Flowers | 8–11 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 3.5–6 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 2–5 mm; corolla violet, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate. |
10–12 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 4.5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 3.5–6 mm; corolla usually purple, sometimes pink or white, banner patch usually white, banner hairy abaxially, keel glabrous. |
Legumes | 3–4.5 cm, hairy. |
2–3 cm, hairy. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | 5 or 6, brown, 6–7 mm. |
3 or 4, 5–6 mm. |
Lupinus onustus |
Lupinus apertus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Sep. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Dry banks, yellow pine forests, serpentine soils. | Dry, rocky soils. |
Elevation | 500–2000 m. (1600–6600 ft.) | 1500–3000 m. (4900–9800 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA; NV |
Discussion | Lupinus onustus is known in California from the southern Cascade Range, Klamath Ranges, and northern Sierra Nevada, to the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Lupinus apertus is found in the northern High Sierra Nevada from Plumas to El Dorado counties in California and eastward to southwestern Washoe County, Nevada. Lupinus apertus can be differentiated from L. andersonii by its abaxial banner pubescence and from L. angustiflorus by its pale yellow to orange-yellow flowers. Lupinus apertus is reportedly toxic. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | L. alilatissimus, L. mucronulatus, L. oreganus var. pusillulus, L. pinetorum, L. sulphureus subsp. delnortensis, L. thompsonianus, L. violaceus | L. andersonii var. apertus |
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 11: 127. (1876) | A. Heller: Muhlenbergia 8: 103, fig. 15. (1912) |
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