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Panamint Mountain lupine

Lupinus magnificus

Also called Magnificent Lupine

Panamint Mountain lupine
Photo: Dean Wm. Taylor, CC BY 2.0

Panamint Mountain lupine is a perennial wildflower of the pea family, native to the Panamint Range and Death Valley area of California. It is a wild species of dry desert mountains, rarely grown in gardens, and best given sharp drainage and full sun.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings and avoid wet roots.
Soil
Very well-drained, gritty or sandy mineral soil with low fertility.
Temperature
Tolerates hot summers and cold winters typical of desert mountains; protect from prolonged frost in containers.
How easy
Hard
Native range
California
Climate
subtropical

About

Lupinus magnificus, commonly known as Panamint Mountain lupine, is a species of flowering plant from the order of Lamiales.

The plant is endemic to California, within Death Valley National Park in Death Valley and the Panamint Range.

Other Lupinus plants

Drew's silky lupine · Fleshy lupine · Lupinus albert-smithianus · Sicklekeel lupine · Silver lupine · White Lupin · Lupinus alopecuroides · Lupinus amandus · Lupinus anatolicus · Anderson's lupine · Narrowflower lupine · Narrowleaf lupine

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lupinus magnificus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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