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|familia=Fabaceae
|genus=Lupinus
|genus=Lupinus
|species=diffusus
|species=diffusus
|common_name=Oak Ridge Lupine, Spreading Lupine, Sky-blue Lupine
|habit=herbaceous
|Min ht box=30
|Min ht metric=cm
|Min ht metric=cm
|Max ht box=50
|Max ht metric=cm
|origin=SE United States
|lifespan=perennial
|features=flowers
|flower_season=early spring
|Temp Metric=°F
|Temp Metric=°F
|image=Upload.png
|image=Lupinus diffusus.gif
|image_width=240
|image_width=200
}}
}}
'''''Lupinus diffusus''''' ('''Oak Ridge Lupine''', '''Spreading Lupine''', or '''Sky-blue Lupine''') is a species of [[lupin]]e native to the southeastern [[United States]], from [[North Carolina]] south to [[Florida]] and west to [[Mississippi]]. It is restricted to very dry, sandy soils, often in open pine or oak woodland, and is an [[endangered species]].
It is a [[perennial plant|perennial]] [[herbaceous]] plant growing to 30-50 cm tall. The [[leaf|leaves]] are palmately compound with 3-5 leaflets 6-12 cm long and 3-5 cm broad, gray-green to silvery green, covered with fine white hairs. The [[flower]]s are pale blue or violet, produced in a dense spike 15-30 cm long.
It is grown as an [[ornamental plant]] in gardens for its flowers and silvery leaves, produced in early spring.
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Lupinus diffusus, Nutt. Deer Cabbage. St. decumbent and many-branched, 1-2 ft., somewhat woody at the base, densely silky: lvs. large, oval or oblong- ovate, obtuse, mucronate, on long, soft-silky petioles :fls.more or less alternate, on a very long (6-12 in.) spike, light blue, the standard with a greenish yellow center: pods oblong, flattish, N. C. to Fla.—Hardiness N. not determined.
Lupinus diffusus, Nutt. Deer Cabbage. St. decumbent and many-branched, 1-2 ft., somewhat woody at the base, densely silky: lvs. large, oval or oblong- ovate, obtuse, mucronate, on long, soft-silky petioles :fls.more or less alternate, on a very long (6-12 in.) spike, light blue, the standard with a greenish yellow center: pods oblong, flattish, N. C. to Fla.—Hardiness N. not determined.
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==Cultivation==
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==Species==
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===Cultivation===
==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
==References and external links==
==External links==
*[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=LUDI2 USDA PLants Profile: ''Lupinus diffusus'']
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