What is Coulter’s lupine?
Lupinus sparsiflorus is a species of the genus Lupinus. (1)
Lupinus sparsiflorus is also known as the desert lupine, Coulter’s lupine, Mojave lupine. (1)
What is NOT the Coulter’s lupine?
The Arizona Lupine (Lupinus arizonicus) is similar. (2)
What does Coulter’s lupine look like?
(see pic here)
Where is it located?
Mojave desert, Sonoran desert, Great Basin desert (1)
Arizona (2)
Annual (2)
violet–blue flowers, white (rare) flowers
What do the leaves look like?
Palmately compound leaves
Resources
1. https://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/FieldGuide/wildguidepurp.html
2. https://www.fireflyforest.com/flowers/1457/lupinus-sparsiflorus-coulters-lupine/
