Lupinus polyphyllusLindl.

Large-leaved lupine

WFO wfo-0000213847 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lupinus polyphyllus, photographed by Vadim Zizov
fig. a Vadim Zizov, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205544265
Lupinus polyphyllus, photographed by E. A.
fig. b E. A., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204648755
Lupinus polyphyllus, photographed by Vadim Zizov
fig. c Vadim Zizov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204169449
Lupinus polyphyllus, photographed by Pavel Borodin
fig. d Pavel Borodin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205706867
Lupinus polyphyllus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205250237
Lupinus polyphyllus, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. f Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205554412
Lupinus polyphyllus, photographed by Liubov Ilminska
fig. g Liubov Ilminska, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204048308
Lupinus polyphyllus, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. h Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204026387

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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 = 3,916 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 3,916 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 40 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 alilatissimus C.P.Sm.
  • Lupinus apodotropis A.Heller
  • Lupinus bernardinus (Abrams ex C.P.Sm.) Abrams
  • Lupinus biddlei Henderson ex C.P.Smith
  • Lupinus carolus-bucarii C.P.Sm.
  • Lupinus elongatus Greene ex A.Heller
  • Lupinus grandifolius Lindl. ex J.Agardh
  • Lupinus lacus-huntingtonii C.P.Sm.
  • Lupinus macrophyllus Benth.
  • Lupinus magnus Greene
  • Lupinus matanuskensis C.P.Sm.
  • Lupinus meli-campestris C.P.Sm.
  • Lupinus pallidipes A.Heller
  • Lupinus perglaber Eastw.
  • Lupinus piperitus Davidson
  • Lupinus piperitus var. sparsipilosus Eastw.
  • Lupinus polyphyllus f. albus (Regel) Voss
  • Lupinus polyphyllus f. atropurpureus Voss
  • Lupinus polyphyllus f. floribundus Voss
  • Lupinus polyphyllus f. roseus Voss
  • Lupinus polyphyllus f. tricolor Voss
  • Lupinus polyphyllus var. albiflorus Lindl.
  • Lupinus polyphyllus var. albiflorus Orcutt
  • Lupinus polyphyllus var. albus Regel

and 16 more.

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.