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Lupinus nootkatensis is a tall perennial herb, dying back annually to a subterranean, branched, woody caudex (top of root); stems 50 – 120 cm tall in favourable locations; basal leaves short petiolated, with several oblong-obovate to oblanceolate eaflets, blunt or mucronate, more or less densely white to brownish pubescent on both sides, or glabrous above; flowering stem densely pubescent; racemes large; flowers blue, rarely white; calyx lobes broad, entire or usually more or less cleft, dentate or lobed. The species is found in all lowland districts of Iceland and some of the lower highland areas in the southwest and northeast where it is naturalized.