''Lupinus albicaulis'' is a species of lupine known by the common name sicklekeel lupine. It is native to the western United States from

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, where it grows mostly in mountain habitat. It is a hairy, erect perennial herb often exceeding a meter in height. Each palmate leaf is made up of 5 to 10 leaflets each up to long. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...

is up to long, bearing whorls of flowers each long. The flower is purple to yellowish or whitish in color and has a

sickle A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting, or reaping, grain crops or cutting Succulent plant, succulent forage chiefly for feed ...

-shaped keel. The fruit is a silky-hairy legume pod up to long containing several seeds. In

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, where the plant is native, it has been cultivated for several uses, including

reforestation Reforestation (occasionally, reafforestation) is the natural or intentional restocking of existing forests and woodlands (forestation) that have been depleted, usually through deforestation, but also after clearcutting. Management A debat ...

and revegetation of roadsides and other disturbed habitat.Rumbaugh, M. D. (1990)
Special purpose forage legumes
p. 183-190. In: J. Janick and J.E. Simon (eds.), ''Advances in New Crops''. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

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