| Lupinus nootkatensis Donn | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Lupinus latifolius var. canadensis P. Sm., Lupinus perennis subsp. nootkatensis (Donn). Phill., Lupinus nootkatensis var. perlanatus P. Sm., Lupinus nootkatensis var. ethel-looffiae P. Sm., Lupinus nootkatensis var. henry-looffii P. Sm., Lupinus columbianus P. Sm., Lupinus kiskensis P. Sm. | ||
| Description | Stems from stout, branched caudex and long, woody root; basal leaves short- petiolated, with several oblong-obovate to oblanceolate leaflets, blunt or mucronate, more or less densely white-to-brownish-pubescent on both sides, or glabrous above; flowering stem densely pubescent; racemes large; flowers blue, rarely white (f. leucanthus Lepage); calyx lobes broad, entire (var. unalaschcénsis S. Wats.) or usually more or less cleft, dentated or lobed. | ||
| Ecology | Dry slopes, gravel bars, common along the southern coast. Described from culti- vated specimens, presumably from Nootka Sound. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Plants with more sericeous pubescence have been called var. fruticosus Sims. Hybrids with L. arcticus and L. polyphyllus (L. stationis P. Sm.) occur. Broken line on circumpolar map -indicates areas where L. nootkatensis has been introduced and partly naturalized. (See color section.) | ||
| Uses | The seeds are poisonous; causing inflammation of the stomach and intestines. |
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.