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Thermopsis montana
Also called Montane Golden-banner, False Lupin, Golden Pea, Mountain Golden Banner, Yellow Pea, Mountain Goldenbean
Mountain goldenbanner is a perennial herb in the pea family, native to mountain meadows and moist high plains of the western United States. It grows as a clump of leafy stems with dense spikes of golden-yellow pea flowers from May to August, and is grown in gardens for its flowers.
Thermopsis montana, the false lupin, mountain goldenbanner, golden pea, mountain thermopsis, or revonpapu, is a plant species which is native to the western United States. The Latin specific epithet montana refers to mountains or coming from mountains.
It is used as a medicinal plant, and as an ornamental plant in gardens. It is suspected of being poisonous. It is avoided by livestock.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thermopsis montana 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.
