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lupines
Lupinus
Lupinus, commonly known as lupin or lupine (North America), is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. The genus includes over 200 species, with centers of diversity in North and South America. Smaller centers occur in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Seeds of various species of lupins have been used as a food for over 3000 years around the Mediterranean and for as long as 6000 years in the Andean highland, but they...
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Bush Lupine complex
complexLupinus albifrons

Large-leaved lupine
speciesLupinus polyphyllus

Texas bluebonnet
speciesLupinus texensis

Miniature Lupine
speciesLupinus bicolor

arroyo lupine
speciesLupinus succulentus

Sundial Lupine
speciesLupinus perennis

Broadleaf Lupine
speciesLupinus latifolius

Sky Lupine
speciesLupinus nanus

chick lupine
speciesLupinus microcarpus

Dwarf Lupine
speciesLupinus lepidus

Coulter's lupine
speciesLupinus sparsiflorus

Arizona lupine
speciesLupinus arizonicus

Silky Lupine
speciesLupinus sericeus

Narrow-leaved Lupine
speciesLupinus angustifolius

Stinging Lupine
speciesLupinus hirsutissimus

Nootka Lupine
speciesLupinus nootkatensis

Arctic Lupine
speciesLupinus arcticus

bajada lupine
speciesLupinus concinnus

collared annual lupine
speciesLupinus truncatus

unifoliolate Floridian lupine clade
complexLupinus cumulicola

Scabrispermae
sectionScabrispermae

Varied Lupine
speciesLupinus variicolor

Seashore Lupine
speciesLupinus littoralis

Longspur Lupine
speciesLupinus arbustus

Riverbank Lupine
speciesLupinus rivularis
Summer Lupine
speciesLupinus formosus

European yellow lupine
speciesLupinus luteus

Lupinus montanus
speciesLupinus montanus

Harlequin Lupine
speciesLupinus stiversii

Lupinus pubescens
speciesLupinus pubescens

Brewer's Lupine
speciesLupinus breweri

Lupinus altimontanus
speciesLupinus altimontanus

Lady Lupine
speciesLupinus villosus

Sandyland Bluebonnet
speciesLupinus subcarnosus

Spider Lupine
speciesLupinus benthamii

Purple Desert Lupine
speciesLupinus shockleyi

Skyblue Lupine
speciesLupinus diffusus

Burke's Lupine
speciesLupinus burkei

Rusty lupine
speciesLupinus pusillus

Russell Lupine
hybridLupinus × regalis

Sierra Lupine
speciesLupinus grayi

Velvet Lupine
speciesLupinus leucophyllus

Satin lupine
speciesLupinus obtusilobus

Small-flowered Lupine
speciesLupinus gussoneanus

San Jacinto Lupine
speciesLupinus hyacinthinus

Hispanian lupine
speciesLupinus hispanicus

Big Bend Bluebonnet
speciesLupinus havardii

Gulf Coast Lupine
speciesLupinus westianus

Sicklekeel Lupine
speciesLupinus albicaulis

shortstem lupine
speciesLupinus brevicaulis

sulphur lupine
speciesLupinus sulphureus

Kellogg's Spurred Lupine
speciesLupinus caudatus

tarwi
speciesLupinus mutabilis

Narrowflower Lupine
speciesLupinus angustiflorus

white lupine
speciesLupinus albus

Yelloweyes
speciesLupinus flavoculatus

Mojave lupine
speciesLupinus odoratus

Lupinus gredensis
speciesLupinus gredensis

Saffron-flowered Lupine
speciesLupinus croceus

rock lupine
speciesLupinus saxosus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.270

Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.268

Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.343

Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.507

On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.694

Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.542

The Dutch Herbarium or Herbal
Petrus Nylandt · 1670 · p.274

Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.271

Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.246

Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.102

Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.102
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47121.