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heart-leaved arnica

longleaf arnica, seep-spring arnica

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

Distribution
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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
Sibling taxa
A. cernua, A. chamissonis, A. discoidea, A. diversifolia, A. fulgens, A. gracilis, A. lanceolata, A. latifolia, A. longifolia, A. mollis, A. nevadensis, A. parryi, A. rydbergii, A. sororia, A. spathulata, A. viscosa
A. cernua, A. chamissonis, A. cordifolia, A. discoidea, A. diversifolia, A. fulgens, A. gracilis, A. lanceolata, A. latifolia, A. mollis, A. nevadensis, A. parryi, A. rydbergii, A. sororia, A. spathulata, A. viscosa
Synonyms Arnica cordifolia var. cordifolia, Arnica cordifolia var. pumila Arnica longifolia ssp. myriadenia
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