Lupinus luteus is known as annual yellow-lupin, European yellow lupin or yellow lupin. It is native to the western Mediterranean region from Portugal east to Italy. It is an annual plant growing to around 80 cm tall with hairy stems. The leaves are palmately compound, with 7–11 leaflets, the leaflets 6 cm long by 12 mm broad. The flower are bright yellow, 13–16 mm long, borne on spikes are not continuous, but in regularly spaced verticillasters on the stem.
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Is it poisonous?
Considered toxic. Public sources list it as such; we have not verified this individually. The note covers its whole genus. Quinolizidine alkaloids in seeds of many species Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Lupinus luteolus — considered toxic
- Lupinus croceus — considered toxic
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Lupinus
- Species
- Lupinus luteus
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