Lupinus tracyi |
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Tracy's lupine |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering (May–)Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Dry, open montane forests. |
Elevation | 800–2500 m. (2600–8200 ft.) |
Distribution |
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 | |
Name authority | Eastwood: Leafl. W. Bot. 2: 268. (1940) |
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