Species Information
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Anthophyta
Class: Dicotyledoneae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Lupinus
Species: sierrae-blancae
Sierra Blanca Lupine - Lupinus sierrae-blancae
Image courtesy of New Mexico Rare Plants
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Species Extent (New Mexico)
General Description
Perennial herb to 1.5 m tall, finely and inconspicuously pubescent; leaves palmately compound, with long petioles, leaflets 7-9, 3-7 cm long, oblong-oblanceolate, finely strigose below, glabrate above; racemes 10-30 cm long, flowers irregularly whorled or scattered; calyx 8-10 mm long, the lips subequal or the lower longer; corolla 10-14 mm, pale blue and whitish; upper petal glabrous; keel upturned about 90-120 degrees, generally sparsely ciliate near the tip; pods about 3.5 cm long, 8 mm deep, hirsute. Flowers July to September.
Status
Observations in Natural Heritage New Mexico Database
Number of Subpopulations: 14
Number of Mapped Locations: 30
Number of Observations: 47
Observation date range: 09-02-1920 to 05-20-2006
External Links
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NatureServe Explorer
New Mexico Rare Plants Website
Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS)
NatureServe Explorer
New Mexico Rare Plants Website
Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS)