Miniature Lupine (Lupinus bicolor) Login         


        Description
  • Height 4 to 16 inches.
  • EW Bloom Mar - May
  • This short flower is an annual, growing from scratch each year.
  • Leaves are palmate, showing 7 - 9 thin leaflets, like a hand.
  • Abundant in open, moist, disturbed areas below 3,000 feet.
  • Compare to Sky Lupine
  • CA native
  • AKA Lupine, Annual Lupine, Bicolored Lupine, Small Annual Lupine
  • Pea Family (Fabaceae)



Pea flowers form a short column, about 3 inches tall, at the top of this small but erect plant.



White banner spots on the top of the pea flower turn maroon with age. Leaflets are short and narrow.



This small plant fills grasslands with blue in the spring.

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Miniature Lupine is shorter than most other lupines, generally about a foot tall. Its [[inflorescence]] is short, about 3" tall, and appears at the ...

[[Palmate]] leaflets are narrow and fairly short - about 1" long. They have short hairs on the top and are generally hairless on the bottom.

Tiny pea flowers emerge from two hairy [[sepals]].

Small pea flowers (about 1/4" long), have squared-off white areas in their banner, often with dark blue spots. These white spots attract pollinator ...

White markings turn magenta with age. Flowers lower down the [[inflorescence]] develop first. Notice the lower flowers have magenta spots in this ...