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Lupinus nevadensis
Nevada lupine is a low, hairy perennial wildflower native to sagebrush country in the western Great Basin, valued for its blue flower spikes. It is grown mainly as a native or xeric garden plant, and the key to success is copying its dry, open, sunny habitat.
Lupinus nevadensis is a species of lupine known by the common name Nevada lupine. It is native to the western Great Basin in Nevada and adjacent sections of Oregon and California, where it grows in sagebrush and other typical basin habitat. It is an erect perennial herb growing 10 to 40 centimeters tall. Each palmate leaf is made up of 6 to 10 hairy leaflets up to 5 centimeters long. The stem and herbage are coated in long hairs. The inflorescence is a spiral of flowers each around 1 centimeter in length. The flower is blue with a whitish patch on its banner and a curved keel. The fruit is a very hairy legume pod up to 4 centimeters long.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lupinus nevadensis 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.
