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{{Taxobox | color = lightgreen
| name = ''Lupinus arizonicus''
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Fabales]]
| familia = [[Fabaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Faboideae]]
| genus = ''[[Lupinus]]''
| subgenus = [http://koti.mbnet.fi/bkurl/Classific.htm Platycarpos] (Wats.) Kurl.
| species = '''''L. arizonicus'''''
| binomial = ''Lupinus arizonicus''
| binomial_authority = ([[Sereno Watson|S.Watson]]) S.Watson
}}
'''''Lupinus arizonicus''''' ('''Arizona lupine''') is a [[flowering plant]] in the family [[Fabaceae]], native to the [[Mojave Desert]] of the [[United States]], growing in open places and sandy washes below 1100 m altitude. It is common around [[Joshua Tree National Park]] and [[Death Valley National Park]].
It is an [[annual plant]] growing to 10–50 cm in height. The [[leaf|leaves]] are palmately compound with 6–10 leaflets, each leaflet 1–4 cm long and 5–10 mm broad, on a 2.5–7 cm long petiole. The [[flower]]s are magenta to dark pink, 7–10 mm long, produced 20–50 or more on a tall spike.
==References==
*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?Lupinus%20arizonicus Jepson Flora Project: ''Lupinus arizonicus'']
*Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 136
[[Category:Faboideae]]
| name = ''Lupinus arizonicus''
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Fabales]]
| familia = [[Fabaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Faboideae]]
| genus = ''[[Lupinus]]''
| subgenus = [http://koti.mbnet.fi/bkurl/Classific.htm Platycarpos] (Wats.) Kurl.
| species = '''''L. arizonicus'''''
| binomial = ''Lupinus arizonicus''
| binomial_authority = ([[Sereno Watson|S.Watson]]) S.Watson
}}
'''''Lupinus arizonicus''''' ('''Arizona lupine''') is a [[flowering plant]] in the family [[Fabaceae]], native to the [[Mojave Desert]] of the [[United States]], growing in open places and sandy washes below 1100 m altitude. It is common around [[Joshua Tree National Park]] and [[Death Valley National Park]].
It is an [[annual plant]] growing to 10–50 cm in height. The [[leaf|leaves]] are palmately compound with 6–10 leaflets, each leaflet 1–4 cm long and 5–10 mm broad, on a 2.5–7 cm long petiole. The [[flower]]s are magenta to dark pink, 7–10 mm long, produced 20–50 or more on a tall spike.
==References==
*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?Lupinus%20arizonicus Jepson Flora Project: ''Lupinus arizonicus'']
*Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 136
[[Category:Faboideae]]
