Carried by 1 nurseries
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Lupinus luteolus is a species of lupine known by the common names pale yellow lupine and butter lupine. It is native to the coastal mountain ranges of Oregon and California as far south as the Transverse Ranges, where it grows in open habitat such as clearings and sometimes disturbed areas. It is an annual herb with a rigid stem growing to maximum heights anywhere between 30 centimeters and 1.5 meters, and known to exceed that at times. Each palmate leaf is made up of 7 to 9 hairy leaflets 1 to 3 centimeters long. The flower cluster is a raceme of crowded whorls of flowers each just over a centimeter long. The flower is often pale to bright yellow, but can be blue or pinkish. The fruit is a hairy, rounded or oval legume pod generally containing 2 seeds.
Annual herb
1 - 5 ft Tall
Upright
Fast
Yellow, Blue, Lavender, Purple
Summer
Full Sun
Moderate
Adaptable, tolerant of sand, loam and clay.
For propagating by seed: Fresh seeds need no treatment. Stored seeds scarification or hot water.
Open places
Foothill Woodland, Northern Oak Woodland, Pinyon-Juniper Woodland, Valley Grassland, Yellow Pine Forest
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 48 likely
Painted Tiger Moth
Arachnis picta
Oso Flaco Flightless Moth
Areniscythris brachypteris
Orange Tortrix Moth
Argyrotaenia franciscana