Lupinus sericeus |
Lupinus truncatus |
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Pursh's silky lupine, silky lupine |
blunt-leaf lupine, collared annual lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, (2–)4–14 dm, silky-strigose to finely hirsute (with both short and long hairs). | Herbs, annual, 2–5(–8) dm, finely pubescent, appearing glabrous. |
Stems | erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched distally. |
ascending or erect, branched or unbranched. |
Leaves | mostly cauline, basal normally absent; stipules 5–7 mm; petiole 2–14 cm (longer proximally becoming shorter distally); leaflets 5–13, blades 10–60(–90) × 3–11(–19) mm, surfaces usually silky, rarely thinly silky appearing glabrous abaxially. |
cauline; petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm; leaflets 5–8, blades 20–40 × 2–5 mm, apex usually truncate, adaxial surface glabrous. |
Racemes | 12–25(–42) cm; flowers whorled or spirally arranged. |
6–35 cm; flowers loosely spirally arranged. |
Peduncles | 2–4 cm; bracts subdeciduous, 5–8 mm. |
3–10 cm; bracts persistent, 2–5 mm. |
Pedicels | 2–5(–6) mm. |
2–4 mm. |
Flowers | 8–14(–18) mm; calyx sometimes slightly saccate, abaxial lobe subentire or entire, 5 mm, adaxial lobe 2-fid, 6 mm; corolla pale purple to bright blue, sometimes yellowish or whitish, banner spot white to yellow turning brown, banner well reflexed-recurved at or proximal to midpoint, this 3.5–6 mm proximal to apex, keel moderately curved, banner silky-hairy abaxially, adaxial keel ciliate almost full length, not reaching tip. |
8–13 mm; calyx 3–4 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire or shallowly cleft, 2.5–3 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 1.5–2 mm; corolla banner and wings magenta, banner spot white or yellowish, becoming dark magenta, keel stout, blunt, lower and upper margins ciliate from claw to middle. |
Legumes | 2–3.7 cm, densely pilosulous. |
±3 cm, pubescent. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | (2 or)3–5(–7). |
6–8. |
Lupinus sericeus |
Lupinus truncatus |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering spring (Mar–May). |
Habitat | Meadows, dry banks, bunchgrass prairies, sagebrush scrub, openings in conifer forests. | Openings in coastal sage scrub, chaparral, oak woodlands, burned areas. |
Elevation | 200–3100 m. (700–10200 ft.) | 0–1200 m. (0–3900 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Lupinus sericeus is widespread and common from the southern interior mountains in British Columbia and southwestern Alberta southward to eastern Washington and eastern Oregon to northern New Mexico and northwestern Arizona, northeastern Nevada through Idaho and Wyoming to the Black Hills in South Dakota. Plants with creamy or white flowers in southeastern Washington are known as subsp. asotinensis. D. Isely (1998) recognized this taxon based on petal color and distribution, but since white and yellow flowers occur throughout the range of Lupinus sericeus, it is not formally recognized here. Lupinus pureriae C. P. Smith may be a hybrid derived in part from L. sericeus, according to an annotation by D. B. Dunn on the holotype (CAS0008254). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Lupinus truncatus is known in the flora area from San Cruz County southward in the Central and South Coast regions; the South Coast, Transverse, and Peninsular ranges; and the Channel Islands. (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. aeger-ovium, L. aliumbellatus, L. alpicola, L. amniculi-salicis, L. amplus, L. arceuthinus, L. bakeri, L. bakeri subsp. amplus, L. barbiger, L. blankinshipii, L. buckinghamii, L. comatus, L. diaboli-septem, L. dichrous, L. falsocomatus, L. fikerianus, L. flavicaulis, L. flexuosus, L. garfieldensis, L. habrocomus, L. hermanworkii, L. hiulcoflorus, L. huffmannii, L. jonesii, L. larsonianus, L. leucopsis, L. marianus, L. ornatus, L. puroviridus, L. quercus-jugi, L. ramosus, L. rickeri, L. sericeus subsp. asotinensis, L. sericeus var. asotinensis, L. sericeus var. barbiger, L. sericeus var. fikerianus, L. sericeus var. flexuosus, L. sericeus subsp. huffmannii, L. sericeus var. jonesii, L. sericeus var. wallowensis, L. spiraeaphilus, L. subulatus, L. tuckerianus | |
Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 468. (1813) | Nuttall ex Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Beechey Voy., 336. (1838) |
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