Silvery Lupine

Lupinus argenteus

''Lupinus argenteus'' is a species of lupine known by the common name silvery lupine. 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 habitat, including sagebrush, grassland, and forests.
Silvery Lupine On the way to the Gunnision Black Canyon. Colorado,Crested Butte,Lupinus argenteus,Silvery Lupine

Appearance

This is a perennial herb growing erect to heights anywhere between 10 centimetres and 1.5 metres. It is sometimes silvery-hairy in texture and sometimes nearly hairless.

Each palmate leaf is made up of 5 to 9 leaflets each up to 6 centimetres long. They are narrow and linear in shape, under a centimetre wide. The inflorescence bears many flowers, sometimes arranged in whorls. The flower is 5 millimetres to 14 millimetres long and purple, blue, or whitish in color. The banner, or upper petal, of the flower may have a patch of white or yellow. The fruit is a hairy legume pod up to 3 centimeters long containing several beanlike seeds.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderFabales
FamilyFabaceae
GenusLupinus
SpeciesL. argenteus
Photographed in
United States of America