Lupinus perennisL.

Sundial Lupine

WFO wfo-0000213846 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lupinus perennis, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. a Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205672907
Lupinus perennis, photographed by Gus
fig. b Gus, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204706742
Lupinus perennis, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. c Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203361335
Lupinus perennis, photographed by Marj H.
fig. d Marj H., CC0 1.0 / obs. 197865232
Lupinus perennis, photographed by Katie Kucera
fig. e Katie Kucera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204120293
Lupinus perennis, photographed by Nash Turley
fig. f Nash Turley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202455631
Lupinus perennis, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. g Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192150729
Lupinus perennis, photographed by Rae Bosley
fig. h Rae Bosley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196356750

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,554 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 1,554 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 12 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 gracilis Nutt.
  • Lupinus microphyllus Nutt.
  • Lupinus nuttallii S.Watson
  • Lupinus perennis f. albiracemus A.H.Moore
  • Lupinus perennis f. bicolor Farw.
  • Lupinus perennis f. gracilis (Chapm.) Voss
  • Lupinus perennis f. leucanthus Fernald
  • Lupinus perennis f. perennis
  • Lupinus perennis f. rosea Britton
  • Lupinus perennis var. gracilis Chapm.
  • Lupinus perennis var. occidentalis S.Watson
  • Lupinus perennis var. perennis

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.