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Lupinus prunophilus
Hairy bigleaf lupine is a hardy herbaceous perennial native to the mountains and basins of the western United States, grown mainly as a wildflower for its spikes of blue-purple pea flowers. It is most at home in full sun with well-drained soil and cool conditions.
Lupinus prunophilus, commonly known as the hairy bigleaf lupine or chokecherry lupin, is a medium-sized herbaceous plant that grows in the Great Basin and other parts of the western United States between the Sierra Nevada and the Rockies. Some botanists consider it a subspecies of L. polyphyllus.
The native range is the interior of the western United States including the states of California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. In the Southern Rocky Mountains, it is rarely found in New Mexico, being more often found in Wyoming and the western slope in Colorado. It is found in many places in Idaho, Nevada, and Utah, but is restricted to eastern areas of California, Washington, and Oregon. There are also a few records of it being found in Montana, but its status there is uncertain.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lupinus prunophilus 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.
