Lupinus padrecrowleyi

Father crowley's lupine, Father Crowley's Lupine

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Father crowley's lupine is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native perennial found in central and southern Sierra Nevada Mountains, including Mono, Inyo, and Tulare Counties, in desert scrub, riparian scrub, and upper montane conifer forests at elevations of 2,500 to 4,000 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces cream to pale yellow flowers with distinctive whorled arrangement on inflorescences 7 to 21 centimeters long. Growing with erect stems 50 to 75 centimeters tall, it forms a silvery to white-woolly mat with long, soft hairs. Its leaves have 6 to 9 leaflets, each 25 to 75 millimeters long, covered with soft hairs on the upper surface and arranged on petioles 2 to 3 centimeters long. The fruit is silky, 2 to 3 centimeters long, containing 2 to 3 white and black-mottled seeds.

Habitat: Decomposed granite, desert scrub, riparian scrub, upper montane conifer forests

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 2500-4000 m

Bioregions: c SNH (s Mono Co., Inyo Co.), s SNH (c Tulare Co.), SNE (s Mono Co., n Inyo Co.).

California counties: Inyo, Tulare, Mono

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