Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

1947
Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Fabaceae
Lupinus perennis ssp. perennis

GREATER THAN
PLANTS National Database: Fabaceae
Lupinus perennis ssp. perennis var. perennis

LESS THAN
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Fabaceae
098-12-001
Lupinus perennis

GREATER THAN
PLANTS National Database:
Lupinus perennis ssp. perennis var. occidentalis

Common Name:
Wild Lupine, Northern Sundial Lupine

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas
Uncommon
Documented growing wild in - NC SC

Look for it in sandhills, sandy roadsides, other dry habitats, per Weakley's Flora



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...Dry

Leaves:
Compound: Palmate 7-11

Flower:
Spring
Blue/Rarely white or pinkish
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx

Fruit:
Summer
Legume

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p279
 Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p066
 Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p125
 Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p153
 Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p088




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May
Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden

A close relative of the famous Texas "bluebonnets," per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.

 

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