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Lupinus sierrae-blancae aquilinus

(Eagle Creek Lupine)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Eagle Creek Lupine

Description

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Family Fabaceae

The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]

Subfamily Faboideae

Mostly herbs, shrubs , or trees . Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple . Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous ), not showy. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]

Genus Lupinus

Herbs or shrubs . Leaf generally palmately multifoliolate; stipules adnate .. Inflorescence a terminal raceme . Bract caducous , bracteoles mostly persistent . Calyx 2-lipped. Vexillum orbicular or broadly ovate . Wing petals connate at the apex. Keel beaked . Stamens monadelphous , anthers alternately long and short. Ovary sessile, 2-many ovuled, style incurved , glabrous or with a ring of hairs beneath the terminal stigma. Fruit compressed , 2-valved, often constricted between the seeds. Seed estrophiolate.

About 200 species; most numerous in Western North and South America, with a second centre round the Mediterranean."Lupinus". in Flora of Pakistan Page 33.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Lupinus

There are approximately 1888 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

L. 'African Sunset' · L. 'Alan Titchmarsh' · L. 'Amber Glow' · L. 'Animal' · L. 'Anne Gregg' · L. 'Approaching Storm' · L. 'Apricot Spire' · L. 'Aston Villa' · L. 'Avalon' · L. 'Baby Doll' · L. 'Baby Spice' · L. 'Bagpuss' · L. 'Barnsdale' · L. 'Betty Astell' · L. 'Billy Wright' · L. 'Bishop's Tipple' · L. 'Blossom' · L. 'Blue Jacket' · L. 'Blue Moon' · L. 'Blue Streak' · L. 'Blueberry Pie' · L. 'Blushing Bride' · L. 'Boningale Lass' · L. 'Bruiser' · L. 'Bubblegum' · L. 'Candy Floss' · L. 'Captain Scarlet' · L. 'Casanova' · L. 'Cashmere Cream' · L. 'Catherine of York' · L. 'Chameleon' · L. 'Chandelier' (Lupin) · L. 'Chelsea Pensioner' · L. 'Cherry Belle' · L. 'Cherry Pie' · L. 'City of York' · L. 'Clifford Star' · L. 'Comet' · L. 'Copperlight' · L. 'Coral Reef' · L. 'Corngold' · L. 'Daydream' · L. 'Deborah Woodfield' · L. 'Desert Sun' · L. 'Devon Lace' · L. 'Dolly Mixture' · L. 'Dorset Cream' · L. 'Dreaming Spires' · L. 'Dumpty' · L. 'Dwarf Lulu' · L. 'Esmerelder' · L. 'Fred Yule' · L. 'Freedom' · L. 'Gallery Blue' · L. 'Gallery Pink' · L. 'Gallery Red' · L. 'Gallery Rose' · L. 'Gallery White' · L. 'Gallery Yellow' · L. 'Garden Gnome' · L. 'George Russell' · L. 'Gladiator' · L. 'Gold Dust' · L. 'Guardsman' · L. 'Halina' · L. 'Harlequin' · L. 'Harvester' · L. 'Heather Glow' · L. 'Helen Sharman' · L. 'Household Brigade' · L. 'Imperial Robe' · L. 'Inverewe Red' (Lupin) · L. 'Ivory Chiffon' · L. 'Joy' · L. 'Judith Chalmers' · L. 'Judy Harper' · L. 'Kayleigh Ann Savage' · L. 'Lady Fayre' · L. 'Lady Penelope' · L. 'Lilac Time' · L. 'Limelight' · L. 'Little Eugenie' · L. 'Lollipop' · L. 'Loveliness' · L. 'Lulu' · L. 'Magnificence' · L. 'Manhattan Lights' · L. 'Masterpiece' · L. 'Merry Widow' · L. 'Misty' · L. 'Moonraker' · L. 'Mrs Perkins' · L. 'My Castle' · L. 'Mystic Charm' · L. 'Nellie B. Allen' · L. 'Neptune' · L. 'Nigel Colborn' · L. 'Noble Maiden' · L. 'Olive Tolley' · L. 'Orangeade'

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Last Revised: 2008-08-21