Other conspecific taxa:

• Lupinus albus var. albus (35 accessions)
• Lupinus albus var. graecus (3 accessions)

Common names:

• European white lupin  (Source: Lupins Crop Pl) - English
• Mediterranean white lupin  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• white lupin  (Source: BSBI) - English
• white lupine  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• lupin blanc  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• weiße Lupine  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• lupino bianco  (Source: Mult Glossary Crops) - Italian
• tremoçeiro-branco  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
• altramuz blanco  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• vitlupin  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: forage
• Environmental: soil improver
• Human food: pulse (fide Lupins Crop Pl 452-453. 1998)
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Turkey (w.)

Europe

• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Greece (incl. Crete)


Cultivated (widely cult.)

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Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image