CANON LUPINS (Lupinus cytisoidcs, Ag.). Flowers very 

 showy, dark pink to magenta, sometimes blue or white, in 

 dense terminal racemes a foot or so in length; leaves divided 

 into 7 to 10 fingers 2 inches or more long; stems marked with 

 longitudinal stripes and minutely hairy. A stout, herbaceous 

 perennial, 3 to 6 feet high, blooming April to August, moun- 

 tains of Southern California, north to Oregon. 



The Canon Lupine, as its name indicates, is particularly 

 at home in mountain canons, where it often covers considerable 

 areas on the damp banks and moist flats, especially along 

 streams. It is a magnificent plant at its best, and the mild 

 glow of its flowers in the veiled light of the more or less shaded 

 situations it loves, makes an effect not soon forgotten. 



Cf about 70 species of lupine indigenous to the United States, 

 most are found wild only on the Pacific Slope. In spite of the 

 abundance of the genus and its membership in a family that 

 makes such valuable contribution to man's food needs as the 

 pea, bean, and lentil, our lupines seem to have played little, if 

 any, part in the service of man even aboriginal man beyond 

 the occasional use of the young plants of some species as 

 greens. They were eaten either boiled or roasted. 



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