Lupinus onustus |
Lupinus hirsutissimus |
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northern lupine, Plumas lupine |
stinging annual lupine, stinging lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 2–3 dm, green, silky; rhizomatous, from slender underground rootstock. | Herbs, annual, 2–10 dm, with short, appressed, stiff, pustulate, stinging hairs to 3.5 mm. |
Stems | short-decumbent, clustered, unbranched. |
ascending or erect, branched or unbranched. |
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; petiole 4–9 cm; leaflets 5–8, blades 20–50 × 10–20 mm, adaxial surface hirsute. |
Racemes | 5–15 cm; flowers not whorled. |
15–40 cm; flowers spirally arranged. |
Peduncles | 4–8 cm; bracts deciduous, 3–4 mm. |
5–8 cm; bracts usually persistent, 4–5 mm. |
Pedicels | 3–5 mm. |
2–5 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. |
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. |
Legumes | 3–4.5 cm, hairy. |
2–4 cm, coarsely hairy. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | 5 or 6, brown, 6–7 mm. |
3–6. |
Lupinus onustus |
Lupinus hirsutissimus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Sep. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Dry banks, yellow pine forests, serpentine soils. | Dry, rocky areas, burns. |
Elevation | 500–2000 m. (1600–6600 ft.) | 0–1400 m. (0–4600 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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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 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.) |
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 | |
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 11: 127. (1876) | Bentham: Trans. Hort. Soc. London, ser. 2, 1: 411. (1835) |
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