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{{Taxobox | color = lightgreen
| name = ''Lupinus microcarpus''
| image = Lupinus microcarpus.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''Lupinus microcarpus'' var. ''densiflorus''
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Fabales]]
| familia = [[Fabaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Lupinus]]''
| species = '''''L. microcarpus'''''
| binomial = ''Lupinus microcarpus''
| binomial_authority = [[John Sims|Sims]]
}}

'''''Lupinus microcarpus''''' ('''Wide-bannered Lupine''' or '''Chick Lupine'''), is a species of [[lupin]]e native to western [[North America]] from southwestern [[British Columbia]] south to the [[Mojave Desert]] in [[California]] and [[Baja California]], and also a disjunct population in [[South America]] in central [[Chile]] and western [[Argentina]]. It grows from sea level in the north of the range, up to 1600 m in southern California.

It is an [[annual plant]] growing to 80 cm tall. The [[leaf|leaves]] are palmately compound with 5-11 leaflets 1-5 cm long and up to 1 cm broad. The [[flower]]s are generally pink to purple in color, but can also be between white and yellow; they are produced in open whorls on an erect spike.

There are three [[variety (biology)|varieties]]:
*''Lupinus microcarpus'' var. ''densiflorus''. Restricted to western California.
*''Lupinus microcarpus'' var. ''horizontalis''. Restricted to southeastern California.
*''Lupinus microcarpus'' var. ''microcarpus''. Widespread, British Columbia to Chile.

==References==
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?22842 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Lupinus microcarpus'']
*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?Lupinus+microcarpus Jepson Flora Project: ''Lupinus microcarpus''] (click on 'next taxon' for details of varieties)
*Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 137

[[Category:Faboideae]]
[[Category:Flora of the Mojave Desert]]