Plants › Legumes

collared annual lupine

Lupinus truncatus

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 396, February 348, March 842, April 1,180, May 430, June 316, July 271, August 276, September 350, October 357, November 460, December 354.
California5,097
United States4,357
Mexico289
Baja California289
Nevada6
Kansas1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Forb or herb growth formListed by a harvested source as having a forb or herbaceous growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
  • Annual plantListed by a harvested source as having an annual life duration.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
  • Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderLegumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
FamilyLegumes · Fabaceae
Genuslupines · Lupinus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise collared annual lupine with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.