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Coso Mountains lupine, Panamint Mountain lupine

magnificent lupine, Panamint Mountain lupine

Habit Herbs, perennial, 6–12 dm, white-woolly.
Stems

erect, branched at base, hairs 1–3 mm, sharp, stiff.

Leaves

usually basal;

stipules 10–24 mm;

petiole 6–30 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 20–55 × 6–15 mm, adaxial surface densely woolly.

Racemes

20–40 cm.

10–45 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

Peduncles

10–50 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm.

Pedicels

slender, 8 mm.

2–8 mm.

Flowers

10–13 mm.

fragrant, 10–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–11 mm, adaxial lobe, 2-toothed, 5–9 mm;

corolla lavender to rose, banner patch yellow turning purple, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

Legumes

3–7 cm, densely hairy.

Cotyledons

deciduous, petiolate.

Seeds

5–8, tan, 3–4 mm.

Keel

petals curved.

Lupinus magnificus var. glarecola

Lupinus magnificus

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Granitic soils, often talus and scree, desert scrub, Joshua tree wood­land.
Elevation 1100–2500 m. (3600–8200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
from USDA
California
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[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety glarecola is known from the Mojave Desert ranges in Inyo County.

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

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

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

Key
1. Flowers (13–)16–18 mm.
var. magnificus
1. Flowers 10–13 mm.
→ 2
2. Keel petals curved; racemes 20–40 cm.
var. glarecola
2. Keel petals straight; racemes 10 cm.
var. hesperius
Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus > Lupinus magnificus Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lupinus
Sibling taxa
L. magnificus var. hesperius, L. magnificus var. magnificus
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. 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. tracyi, L. truncatus, L. uncialis, L. villosus, L. westianus
Subordinate taxa
L. magnificus var. glarecola, L. magnificus var. hesperius, L. magnificus var. magnificus
Synonyms L. kerrii
Name authority M. E. Jones: Contr. W. Bot. 8: 26. (1898) M. E. Jones: Contr. W. Bot. 8: 26. (1898)
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