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The species are mostly herbaceous perennial plants 0.3–1.5 metres (1–5 feet) tall, but some are annual plants and a few are shrubs up to 3 m (10 ft) tall. An exception is the chamis de monte (Lupinus jaimehintonianus) of Oaxaca in Mexico, which is a tree up to 8 m (26 ft) tall.
Lupinus prunophilus is a herbaceous perennial plant that start the growing season with many leaves on short stalks growing from the base of the plant (basal leaves) and retain these leaves as the much taller flowering stem grows and start to bloom. [2]
Lupinus perennis is commonly mistaken for the Western species Lupinus polyphyllus (large-leaved lupine), which is commonly planted along roadsides. [5] [6] L. polyphyllus is not native to eastern North America, but has naturalized in areas in the upper Midwest and New England.
Lupinus polyphyllus, the large-leaved lupine, big-leaved lupine, many-leaved lupine, [2] blue-pod lupine, [3] or, primarily in cultivation, garden lupin, is a species of lupine (lupin) native to western North America from southern Alaska and British Columbia [4] and western Wyoming, and south to Utah and California. It commonly grows along ...
[11] [9] The toxin can be found in growing leaf material in a young lupinus plant and in the flower and seed of a mature plant, though varying concentrations of the alkaloid are present throughout lupines that contain anagyrine. [10] The first correlation between anagyrine and crooked calf disease was made by Richard Keeler in 1973. [12]
Lupinus truncatus is an annual herb growing no more than 0.5 metres (1.6 ft) tall. Each palmate leaf is made up of 5 to 8 narrow linear leaflets measuring 2 to 4 centimeters in length and just a few millimeters wide.
Lupinus albifrons, silver lupine, white-leaf bush lupine, or evergreen lupine, is a species of lupine (lupin). It is native to California and Oregon , where it grows along the coast and in dry and open meadows, prairies and forest clearings.
Lupinus succulentus is a species of lupine known by the common names hollowleaf annual lupine, arroyo lupine, and succulent lupine. It is native to California, where it is common throughout much of the state, and adjacent sections of Arizona and Baja California. L. succulentus is known from many types of habitat and it can colonize disturbed areas.