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Lupinus
Family: Fabaceae
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Thomas Van Devender
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Cal deeply bilabiate, the upper lip 2-toothed, the lower entire or 3-lobed; standard suborbicular with strongly reflexed sides; wings united toward the summit; keel-pet strongly convex on the lower side, prolonged into a beak-like apex; stamens 10, monadelphous into a closed tube for about half their length; anthers alternately linear or minute and subglobose; pods oblong, flattened, with 2-several seeds; herbs with palmately compound, 1-many-foliolate lvs and handsome white, yellow, pink, or blue fls in terminal racemes or spikes. 200, widespread.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Species within checklist: Personal Plant List
Lupinus bicolor
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Lupinus brevicaulis
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Lupinus concinnus
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Lupinus sparsiflorus
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