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Lupinus hillii

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2023
Entity authorityQ15468861 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lupinus hillii, commonly known as Hill's lupine, is a species of lupine native to Arizona and some parts of New Mexico.

Subspecies

Lupinus hillii has three subspecies, including:

Lupinus hillii var. arizonicus, native to Arizona and New Mexico.

Lupinus hillii var. hillii, native to New Mexico.

Lupinus hillii var. osterhoutianus, native to Arizona and New Mexico.

Description

Hill's lupine can grow up to 2 feet. It grows either upright or horizontally. There is no hair on the stems, but the leaflets are hairy.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lupinus hillii” is species of plant. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lupinus, hillii and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 83-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lupinus, hillii and species is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Lupinus hillii” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.