Lupinus cosentinii

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lupinus cosentinii, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 165862548

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Native distribution of Lupinus cosentinii, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Corse	COR	EUROPE
Italy	ITA
Portugal	POR
Sardegna	SAR
Sicilia	SIC
Spain	SPA
Algeria	ALG	AFRICA
Libya	LBY
Morocco	MOR
Tunisia	TUN

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.

Flowering 107 in flower of 142 examined

94%

100%

60%

25%

64%

97%

90%

Proportion of examined Lupinus cosentinii in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	2	too few examined
Feb	17	18	94%	74% to 99%
Mar	25	25	100%	87% to 100%
Apr	15	25	60%	41% to 77%
May	2	8	25%	7% to 59%
Jun	1	4	too few examined
Jul	1	4	too few examined
Aug	9	14	64%	39% to 84%
Sep	28	29	97%	83% to 99%
Oct	9	10	90%	60% to 98%
Nov	0	2	too few examined
Dec	0	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Lupinus cosentinii observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 107 of 142 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 9 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 consentini Walp.
Lupinus pilosus prol. cosentinii (Guss.) Rouy
Lupinus pilosus subsp. cosentinii (Guss.) P.Fourn.
Lupinus pilosus var. cosentinii (Guss.) Rouy & Foucaud
Lupinus pilosus var. cosentinii (Guss.) Briq.
Lupinus pilosus var. velutinus Maire
Lupinus varius sensu L., p.p.A
Lupinus varius subsp. varius
Lupinus velutinus Pau

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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