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§1 Plant — species · Fabaceae
Lupinus aridus Douglas
vernacular desert lupine
PlateNo public-domain or CC photograph located.
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Lupinus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 30 of 56 Montana counties.
Native · 30 counties
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Dawson 30021
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Glacier 30035
- Golden Valley 30037
- Jefferson 30043
- Madison 30057
- Meagher 30059
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Powell 30077
- Rosebud 30087
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Treasure 30103
- Valley 30105
- Wheatland 30107
- Yellowstone 30111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LUAR7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7401985 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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