Lupinus peirsonii |
Lupinus luteolus |
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long lupine, Peirson's lupine |
bushy yellow lupine, butter lupine, pale yellow lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 3–6 dm, silver-silky. | Herbs, annual, 3–16(–20) dm, sparsely pubescent or glabrate, appearing glaucous. |
Stems | erect, branched from just above ground. |
ascending or erect, branched near middle or unbranched. |
Leaves | cauline, clustered at base, ± fleshy; stipules 15–20 mm; petiole 2–15 cm; leaflets 5–8, blades widely oblanceolate, 25–70 × 10–30 mm, surfaces silver-silky. |
cauline; petiole 2–5 cm; leaflets 7–9, blades 10–30 × 4–9 mm, adaxial surface usually pubescent. |
Racemes | 1–1.5 cm; flowers ± whorled. |
9–35 cm; flowers in crowded whorls. |
Peduncles | 1–2.5 cm; bracts deciduous, 5–7 mm. |
4–15 cm; bracts persistent, reflexed, 5–11 mm, pubescent. |
Pedicels | 1–2 mm. |
1–3 mm. |
Flowers | 10–12 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe obscurely 2-toothed, 4–6 mm; corolla yellow, banner usually hairy abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip. |
10–16 mm; calyx appendages usually absent, abaxial lobe entire, 6–10 mm, adaxial lobe entire, 3–5 mm; corolla usually pale yellow, sometimes pinkish or bright blue, lower wing margins rarely ciliate, upper margins ciliate near claw, lower and upper keel margins densely ciliate near claw. |
Legumes | 3–4 cm, silky. |
1–1.5 cm, pubescent. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
persistent or deciduous, disclike (leaving a circular scar), sessile. |
Seeds | 3–5. |
2, dark brown, tuberculate. |
Lupinus peirsonii |
Lupinus luteolus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Gravelly or rocky areas, Joshua tree woodland, montane coniferous forests, pinyon and juniper woodlands. | Clearings, open or disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 1000–2500 m. (3300–8200 ft.) | 0–1900 m. (0–6200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; OR
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Discussion | Lupinus peirsonii is known only from the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Lupinus luteolus is known primarily from the North Coast area in California, with isolated collections from the Diablo Range and Western Transverse Ranges. It is known from Oregon in Douglas, Jackson, and Klamath counties. Lupinus luteolus from Siskiyou County in California to the Klamath Range of southern Oregon and northern California often (in about 50% of specimens) has leaflets that are glabrous adaxially. Plants from Round Valley, Mendocino County, are unusually tall and sometimes have flowers blue at anthesis; they are sometimes recognized as L. milobakeri. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | L. luteolus var. albiflorus, L. milobakeri | |
Name authority | H. Mason: Madroño 1: 187. (1928) — (as peirsoni) | Kellogg: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 5: 38. (1873) |
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