| Lupinus arcticus S. Wats. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Lupinus yukonensis P. Sm., Lupinus polyphyllus subsp. arcticus (S. Wats.) Phill., Lupinus gakonensis P. Sm., Lupinus burkei Gombecz., Lupinus donnellyensis P. Sm., Lupinus borealis Heller, Lupinus multicaulis P. Sm., Lupinus matanuskensis P. Sm., Lupinus nootkatensis var. kjellmannii Ostenf., Lupinus prunifolius P. Sm., Lupinus multifolius P. Sm. | ||
| Description | Stems several, from stout, branched caudex; basal leaves green on both sides, long-petiolated, with several oblanceolate, or elliptic-lanceolate, acute leaflets, gla- brous above, strigose-pubescent beneath; flowering stem white-pubescent; racemes short or elongated, white to brownish-pubescent; flowers blue or dark blue; calyx with pubescent, acute, linear lobes. | ||
| Ecology | Dry and damp slopes, gravel bars, solifluction soil, roadsides; common over large areas, in the mountains to at least 1,500 meters. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Hybrids with L. nootkatensis occur. Probably poisonous. Broken line on circum- polar map indicates range of subsp. subalpinus (Piper & Robins.) Dunn (L. subal- pinus Piper & Robins.). |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.