Lupinus microcarpus is an annual plant growing to 80-centimetre (31 in) tall. The leaves are palmately compound with 5-11 leaflets 1-centimetre (0.39 in)–5-centimetre (2.0 in) long and up to 1-centimetre (0.39 in) broad.
The flowers are generally pink to purple in color, but can also be between white and yellow; they are produced in open whorls on an erect spike.
Lupinus microcarpus grows from sea level in the north of its range, up to 1,600-metre (5,200 ft) high in Southern California.
Lupinus microcarpus var. densiflorus - whitewhorl lupine[1] or dense-flowered lupine. Endemic and restricted to western California (formerly Lupinus densiflorus).[2]
Lupinus microcarpus var. horizontalis. Endemic and restricted to southeastern California deserts.[3]
Lupinus microcarpus var. microcarpus. Widespread, British Columbia to Chile.[4]
^USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Lupinus densiflorus". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
^Jepson Manual treatment for LUPINUS microcarpus var. densiflorus . accessed 10.21.2011
^Jepson Manual treatment for LUPINUS microcarpus var. horizontalis . accessed 10.21.2011
^Jepson Manual treatment for LUPINUS microcarpus var. microcarpus . accessed 10.21.2011
Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 137
Chilean Scientists use the plant for wastes' Phytoremediation clean-up management of soils.
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