Calflora: Lupinus microcarpus var. microcarpus

Lupinus microcarpus Sims var. microcarpus

Valley lupine, chick lupine

Lupinus microcarpus var. microcarpus, a dicot, is an annual herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Sagebrush Scrub, Creosote Bush Scrub, Foothill Woodland, Valley Grassland
Habitat:	slopes [Walker]
Toxicity:	MAJOR [California Poison Control System 2010]
Elevation:	between 0 and 5000 feet
Family:	FABACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Lupinus found in California.
	See the more inclusive parent record Lupinus microcarpus.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + JM93
PLANTS: accepted name:		Lupinus subvexus var. subvexus

Other Names:
(according to)

ICPN:	Lupinus densiflorus var. austrocollium
ICPN:	Lupinus subvexus var. transmontanus
ICPN:	Lupinus subvexus var. subvexus
ICPN:	Lupinus subvexus var. phoeniceus
ICPN:	Lupinus subvexus var. albilanatus
ICPN:	Lupinus ruber
ICPN:	Lupinus densiflorus var. persecundus
ICPN:	Lupinus densiflorus var. palustris
ICPN:	Lupinus densiflorus var. crinitus
ICPN:	Lupinus subvexus

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
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Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 36 / 31 CCH Amador: 4 / 4 CCH Butte: 18 / 15 CCH Calaveras: 1 / 0 CCH Contra Costa: 50 / 39 CCH Colusa: 14 / 13 CCH El Dorado: 2 / 1 CCH Fresno: 30 / 26 CCH Glenn: 11 / 9 CCH Humboldt: 1 / 1 CCH Inyo: 9 / 9 CCH Kern: 140 / 129 CCH Lake: 8 / 7 CCH Lassen: 16 / 13 CCH Los Angeles: 94 / 83 CCH Madera: 1 / 1 CCH Mendocino: 2 / 2 CCH Merced: 15 / 12 CCH Monterey: 74 / 66 CCH Modoc: 50 / 47 CCH Mariposa: 2 / 2 CCH Marin: 18 / 13 CCH Napa: 15 / 9 CCH Orange: 14 / 11 CCH Placer: 2 / 2 CCH Riverside: 28 / 19 CCH Sacramento: 2 / 1 CCH Santa Barbara: 116 / 107 CCH San Bernardino: 18 / 17 CCH San Benito: 27 / 23 CCH Santa Clara: 35 / 30 CCH Santa Cruz: 4 / 3 CCH San Diego: 50 / 46 CCH San Francisco: 3 / 1 CCH Shasta: 11 / 8 CCH Siskiyou: 23 / 18 CCH San Joaquin: 6 / 5 CCH San Luis Obispo: 180 / 168 CCH San Mateo: 7 / 6 CCH Solano: 18 / 15 CCH Sonoma: 37 / 30 CCH Stanislaus: 10 / 10 CCH Sutter: 1 / 1 CCH Tehama: 11 / 9 CCH Trinity: 6 / 6 CCH Tulare: 11 / 10 CCH Tuolumne: 2 / 0 CCH Ventura: 62 / 60 CCH Yolo: 29 / 26 CCH Yuba: 1 / 1 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Lupinus microcarpus var. microcarpus from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (LUSUS)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database