Lupinus albusL.

White Lupinwhite lupine

WFO wfo-0000213483 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lupinus albus, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. a Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201606771
Lupinus albus, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. b Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 154758887
Lupinus albus, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. c Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25743668
Lupinus albus, photographed by Jaro Guzinski
fig. d Jaro Guzinski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23653337
Lupinus albus, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. e Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120845281
Lupinus albus, photographed by Jamie Wood
fig. f Jamie Wood, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185703698
Lupinus albus, photographed by Chiara Catalano
fig. g Chiara Catalano, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180950380
Lupinus albus, photographed by Thibaud Aronson
fig. h Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 176252692

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Lupinus albus is native: East Aegean Is., Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Sicilia, Türkiye-in-Europe East Aegean Is.TürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaGreeceKritiNW. Balkan Pen.SiciliaTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Lupinus albus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Greece GRC
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sicilia SIC
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 19 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Lupinus albus f. libkindae Kurl. & Stank.
  • Lupinus albus prol. termis (Forssk.) Rouy
  • Lupinus albus subsp. graceus (Boiss. & Spruner) Franco & P.Silva
  • Lupinus albus subsp. termis (Forssk.) Cout.
  • Lupinus albus subsp. termis (Forssk.) Menezes
  • Lupinus albus var. graecus (Boiss. & Spruner) Gladst.
  • Lupinus albus var. termis (Forssk.) Alef.
  • Lupinus albus var. vavilovii Kurl. & Stank.
  • Lupinus albus var. vulgaris Alef.
  • Lupinus argyraeus DC.
  • Lupinus bivonii C.Presl
  • Lupinus graecus Boiss. & Spruner
  • Lupinus hirsutus subsp. termis (Forssk.) Bonnier & Layens
  • Lupinus prolifer Desr.
  • Lupinus sativus Gaterau
  • Lupinus termis Forssk.
  • Lupinus thermis Gasp.
  • Lupinus thermus St.-Lag.
  • Lupinus varius Gaertn.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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