Lupinus croceus (saffron-flowered lupine)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lupinus croceus, photographed by John Brew — fig. a John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-09 / obs. 144086199

Lupinus croceus, photographed by Rick Mandel — fig. b Rick Mandel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48140142

Lupinus croceus, photographed by Matt Berger — fig. c Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50375545

Lupinus croceus, photographed by Ryan Elliott — fig. d Ryan Elliott, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50496680

Lupinus croceus, photographed by joergmlpts — fig. e joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21202966

Lupinus croceus, photographed by rockybajada — fig. g rockybajada, CC0 1.0 / obs. 141817562

Lupinus croceus, photographed by Alex Heyman — fig. h Alex Heyman, CC0 1.0 / obs. 76963671

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Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Lupinus croceus, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
California	CAL	NORTHERN AMERICA

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 1 synonym

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 pilosellus Eastw.

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.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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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