| Taxon | Lupinus variicolor |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Family common name(s) | legume; legumes; leguminosae; pea; bean; clover; pulse; pulses |
| Genus common name(s) | lupine; lupin; sun-dial plant; sun dial plant; sundial plant; sun-dial; sun dial; sundial; old-maid's-sunbonnets |
| Species common name(s) | Lindley's varied lupine; Lindley varied lupine; varied lupine; varied-colored lupine; varied colored lupine; varicolored lupine; vari-colored lupine; many-colored lupine; manycolored lupine; particolor lupine; prostrate particolor lupine; coastal-prairie lupine; coastal prairie lupine coastal-prairie perennial lupine; coastal prairie perennial lupine |
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| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | bluff lupine is applied to multiple Lupinus taxa; monkey faces, monkey-faces, blue bean are applied to taxa in multiple families |
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| Notes | Lindley is a proper name, so upper case preferable; Lindleys is an error |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Lupinus littoralis Douglas var. variicolor (Steud.) Isely; |
