Lupinus covillei

Lupinus covillei is an erect perennial herb growing up to {{convert|90|cm}} tall. The shaggy-haired palmate leaves are made up of several leaflets each up to {{convert|10|cm}} long. The herbage is coated in long, shaggy hairs. The inflorescence is a raceme of many flowers, sometimes arranged in whorls. Each flower is about a centimeter long and blue in color with a yellowish spot on the banner. The fruit is a woolly legume pod up to {{convert|4|cm}} long.

Lupinus covillei is endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California, where it grows in moist habitat such as wet depressions in meadows. In the same state it is also abundant in Sequoia, Yosemite and Kings Canyon National Parks.{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vxAaBv8fW00C&dq=Lupinus+covillei&pg=PA495|author=Tom Johnson|title=CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference|publisher=CRC Press|year=1999|page=495|isbn=0-8493-1187-X}}

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• [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?3691,4023,4059 Jepson Manual Treatment - Lupinus covillei]
• [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Lupinus+covillei Lupinus covillei Photo gallery]

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covillei

Category:Endemic flora of California

Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status

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