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Hairy Bigleaf Lupine - Lupinus polyphyllus var. prunophilus
Other Names:
Lupinus prunophilus, Lupinus wyethii var. prunophilus
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Reported for Montana but additional research needed to confirm its presence and status.
General Description
Some authors treat this taxon at the infraspecific level, others as a species (Kartesz in prep. 2012).
Range Comments
Beaverhead County (Evert 41975 [at RM]) but also reported for Park, Broadwater, and Gallatin counties (Kartesz in prep. 2012). Elsewhere from WA, OR, NV, east to WY, CO, and NM (Rio Arriba County).
Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus vagans ,
Bombus bifarius ,
Bombus centralis ,
Bombus fervidus ,
Bombus flavifrons ,
Bombus frigidus ,
Bombus huntii ,
Bombus melanopygus ,
Bombus mixtus ,
Bombus nevadensis ,
Bombus rufocinctus ,
Bombus sylvicola ,
Bombus sitkensis ,
Bombus occidentalis ,
Bombus pensylvanicus ,
Bombus bimaculatus ,
Bombus griseocollis ,
Bombus impatiens , and
Bombus kirbiellus (Macior 1974, Thorp et al. 1983, Bauer 1983, Mayer et al. 2000, Wilson et al. 2010, Colla and Dumesh 2010, Koch et al. 2012, Miller-Struttmann and Galen 2014, Williams et al. 2014).
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