Coastal bush lupine
Lupinus arboreus Sims
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Fabaceae
Also called Yellow bush lupine, Tree lupine, Tree lupin
Formerly Lupinus arborescens, Lupinus barilochensis, Lupinus eximius, Lupinus macrocarpus, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- WC. & SW. California to Mexico (N. Baja California)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 1.5 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 1.5–2.5 m; Wikipedia 1–1.5 m
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Estonian
- puislupiin, puis-hundiuba
- Norwegian Bokmål
- trelupin
- Chinese
- 木本羽扇豆, 叢羽扇豆, 加州羽扇豆
- Lithuanian
- Krūminis lubinas
- Swedish
- gul busklupin
- Russian
- Люпин древовидный
- Spanish
- Garbancillo Dorado de chaparral, Altramuz De Chaparral Dorado
- Polish
- Łubin krzewiasty
- French
- Lupin arborescent
- Slovak
- vlčí bôb stromovitý
- Welsh
- coeden bysedd y blaidd
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Lupinus arboreus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.