Lupinus dalesiae

Quincy lupine

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

Quincy lupine is a native perennial herb found in northern Sierra Nevada Mountains (Plumas County) in dry pine forest at elevations of 1,000 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces yellow flowers with hairy banner petals in clusters 5 to 16 centimeters long. Growing with erect stems 20 to 50 centimeters tall, it is densely covered in long white spreading hairs. Its leaves are composed of 6 to 9 leaflets, each 20 to 45 millimeters long, with dense tomentose (woolly) surfaces and prominent stipules 6 to 16 millimeters long. The fruit is a strigose pod 2 to 3 centimeters long, containing 3 to 5 tan seeds.

Habitat: dry pine forest

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: (850)1000-2500 m

Bioregions: n SNH (Plumas Co.).

California counties: Plumas, Sierra

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