Arnica cordifolia |
Arnica longifolia |
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heart-leaved arnica |
longleaf arnica, seep-spring arnica |
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Habit | Plants (1)2–5+ dm; strongly rhizomatous. | Plants 3–6+ dm; rhizomatous. |
Stems | usually simple, stipitate-glandular to lightly or densely pilose or villous. |
simple or branched, glandular-puberulent, sometimes glabrate proximally. |
Basal leaves | usually in separate sterile rosettes; long-petiolate. |
small, withering early. |
Cauline leaves | 2–4(6) pairs, reduced distally; blades ovate or triangular, 2–15 cm, bases cordate to subcordate or truncate; margins usually dentate or serrate; veins branching laterally; tips acute; surfaces puberulent, sparsely villous, or minutely glandular, petiolate. |
5–7 pairs; blades lanceolate to narrowly lance-elliptic or linear, 3–15 cm, mostly 5–10 × as long as wide, bases truncate or attenuate; margins entire to obscurely or minutely denticulate; veins branching laterally; tips acute or acuminate; surfaces glabrous to glandular-puberulent or gland-dotted, sessile or lower short-petiolate. |
Peduncles | stipitate-glandular and pilose or villous, tomentose below heads. |
pilose or glandular-puberulent. |
Involucres | campanulate, 15–20(30) mm. |
campanulate or hemispheric, 7–10 mm. |
Ray florets | 6–13; rays 15–30 mm, yellow. |
8–13; rays 10–20 mm, yellow. |
Disc florets | 20–90; corollas 9–12 mm, yellow. |
15–60; corollas 7–9 mm, yellow. |
Phyllaries | broadly or narrowly lance-elliptic or oblanceolate; tips acute; surfaces pilose or villous, sometimes glabrous distally or glandular-puberulent. |
narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate to elliptic or linear; surfaces glabrous to minutely scabrous or pilose, usually glandular-puberulent. |
Fruits | columnar-fusiform, 5–8(10) mm, dark gray or blackish, spiculate or hirsute; pappus bristles 5–9 mm, white, barbellate. |
columnar, 3–7 mm, brown or black, glabrous to sparsely hispid or stipitate-glandular; pappus bristles 5–7 mm; straw-colored or brownish, barbellate or subplumose. |
Heads | radiate. |
radiate. |
2n | =38, 57, 76, 95, 114. |
=57, 76. |
Arnica cordifolia |
Arnica longifolia |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Forests, shrublands, meadows, streambanks. Flowering Apr–Aug. 50–2900 m. BR, BW, Casc, Col, CR, ECas, Lava, Sisk. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to AK, northeast to Quebec, east to SD, southeast to NM. Native. |
Open coniferous forests, mixed woods, streambanks, lakesides, talus slopes, meadows. Flowering Jun–Sep. 900–3000 m. BR, BW, Casc, CR, ECas, Owy. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to Alberta, east to WY, southeast to CO. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 183 Kenton Chambers |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 185 Kenton Chambers |
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Synonyms | Arnica cordifolia var. cordifolia, Arnica cordifolia var. pumila | Arnica longifolia ssp. myriadenia |
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