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Tracy's lupine

Habit Herbs, perennial, 4–7 dm, glabrous, glaucous.
Stems

solitary, erect, slender, usually unbranched.

Leaves

cauline;

stipules 7–9 mm;

petiole to 1 cm;

leaflets 6 or 7, blades 10–40 × 4–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

Racemes

4–16 cm;

flowers ± whorled or not.

Peduncles

2–6 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

Pedicels

5–6 mm.

Flowers

8–10(–12) mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 3–5 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 3–8 mm;

corolla whitish to dull blue (at least in bud), often fading to pale yellow, banner glabrous abaxially, keel glabrous, tip sometimes exserted.

Legumes

1.5–2.5 cm, white-hairy, dark when dry.

Cotyledons

deciduous, petiolate.

Seeds

3 or 4, 4–5 mm.

Lupinus tracyi

Phenology Flowering (May–)Jun–Jul.
Habitat Dry, open montane forests.
Elevation 800–2500 m. (2600–8200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
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Discussion

Lupinus tracyi is known from the Klamath Ranges of northern California and adjacent areas in southern Oregon.

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

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus
Sibling taxa
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. magnificus, 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. truncatus, L. uncialis, L. villosus, L. westianus
Name authority Eastwood: Leafl. W. Bot. 2: 268. (1940)
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