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infestation (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of leaves and golden yellow pea-shaped flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of seeds (Photo: Steve Hurst at USDA PLANTS Database)

Lupinus luteus

Scientific Name

Lupinus luteus L.

Family

Fabaceae (Queensland, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory)
Fabaceae: sub-family Faboideae (New South Wales)
Leguminosae (South Australia)
Papilionaceae (Western Australia)

Common Names

European yellow lupine, lupin, yellow lupin, yellow lupine, yellow sweet lupin, yellow-flowered European lupine

Origin

Native to north-western Africa (i.e. Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) and south-western Europe (i.e. Portugal and western Spain).

Naturalised Distribution

Naturalised in some parts of southern Australia. It is most common in south-western Western Australia, but is also present in south-eastern South Australia and in the southern and central parts of New South Wales.

Also naturalised overseas in south-eastern USA (i.e. Florida).

Notes

Yellow lupin (Lupinus luteus) is regarded as an environmental weed in Western Australia. This species is grown as a fodder and grain crop, particularly in temperate regions. It has spread from cultivation and is now a weed of roadsides, disturbed sites, waste areas, parks, grasslands and coastal environs.

Yellow lupin (Lupinus luteus) is primarily a weed of disturbed sites (e.g. roadsides and wasteland) between Perth and Albany. However, it also grows on winter-wet flats and in disturbed natural vegetation (e.g. grasslands and open woodlands).