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Mcgee Meadow lupine, Mcgee Meadows 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

10 cm.

10–45 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

Peduncles

10–50 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm.

Pedicels

stout, 4 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 straight.

Lupinus magnificus var. hesperius

Lupinus magnificus

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Sandy soils, desert scrub, upper mon­tane coniferous forests.
Elevation 1200–1900 m. (3900–6200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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from USDA
California
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Discussion

Variety hesperius is known from the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada 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. glarecola, 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. hesperius
Name authority (A. Heller) C. P. Smith in W. L. Jepson: Man. Fl. Pl. Calif., 533. (1925) M. E. Jones: Contr. W. Bot. 8: 26. (1898)
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