Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lupinus angustifolius
Common name
Narrow-leaved Lupin
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Woodland, pastures, crops, parks, roadsides, and disturbed sites. Widespread but uncommon.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 1.5 m tall. Stems hairy with appressed or spreading hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 5–9 leaflets each 1.2–4 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface sparsely to densely appressed-hairy, tips blunt, often minutely mucronate. Flowers mostly blue, often tinged purple, sometimes white or cream, 11–15 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Flowers in clusters 5–20 cm long. Flowers spring. Pods 35–55 mm long, densely hairy. Seeds brownish with white or brown markings, oval, 5–7 mm long, smooth.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lupinus~angustifolius (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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