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Lupinus arcticus is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names Arctic lupine or subalpine lupine. It is native to northwestern North America, where it occurs from Oregon north to Alaska and east to Nunavut. [1] It is a common wildflower in British Columbia. [2]
Lupinus, commonly known as lupin, lupine, [note 1] or regionally bluebonnet, is a genus of plants in the legume family Fabaceae. The genus includes over 199 species , with centres of diversity in North and South America . [ 1 ]
The following species in the flowering plant genus Lupinus, the lupins or lupines, are accepted by Plants of the World Online. [1] Although the genus originated in the Old World, about 500 of these species are native to the New World, probably due to multiple adaptive radiation events.
In December, 2009, a Turkish newspaper reported a claim that a 4,000-year-old lentil had been successfully germinated. [10]In 1954, arctic lupine seeds belonging to the species Lupinus arcticus were found in the Yukon Territory in glacial sediments, believed to be at least 10,000 years old.
By 2005 Lupinus prunophilus was either accepted as a subspecies of Lupinus polyphyllus following the classification by Phillips rather than as a subspeices of any of the other Lupinus or classified as a separate species. Though molecular data on a related taxa, Lupinus wyethii, suggest that all of them are part of L. polyphyllus. [6]
The Andean lupin L. mutabilis, the Mediterranean Lupinus albus (white lupin), and Lupinus hirsutus [8] are only edible after soaking the seeds for some days in salted water. [9] In Ecuador, the lupin is often consumed as a ceviche-like street food known as "cevichochos". [10]
Lupinus lepidus is a small hairy perennial that reaches 10 to 61 centimetres (4 to 24 inches). [3] Palmately compound leaves extend up the stem, but most are basal . [ 3 ] The inflorescence is a dense spike-like raceme , with pink, purple, or blue flowers that often have a yellowish spot. [ 3 ]
Lupinus argenteus plant, with silvery leaves. Lupinus argenteus is a species of lupine known by the common name silvery lupine. [2] It is native to much of western North America from the southwestern Canadian provinces to the southwestern and midwestern United States, where it grows in several types of habitats, including sagebrush, grassland, and forests.