Lupinus concinnus

Bajada lupine

Family: Fabaceae · Type: annual · Native

Bajada lupine is a California native annual herb found in southern Sierra Nevada, central and western California, southwestern California, and desert regions in open or disturbed areas, burns, and lava caps at elevations below 1,700 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces pink to purple flowers with a white or pale yellow banner spot, typically 5 to 12 millimeters long. Growing 10 to 30 centimeters tall with decumbent or erect hairy stems, it has a distinctive spreading form. Its compound leaves feature 5 to 9 narrow leaflets, each 10 to 30 millimeters long and 1.5 to 8 millimeters wide, arranged along slender leaf stalks 2 to 7 centimeters long. The fruit is a hairy pod 1 to 1.5 centimeters long containing 3 to 5 seeds.

Habitat: Common. Open or disturbed areas, burns, lava caps, many plant communities

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 1700 m

Bioregions: s SN, c&amps CW, SW, D

California counties: San Bernardino, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Inyo, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Riverside, Monterey, Imperial, Tulare, Orange, Tehama, Alameda, El Dorado, Calaveras, Contra Costa, Tuolumne, San Benito, Madera, Glenn, Plumas

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.