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broadleaf arnica, mountain arnica

rayless arnica

Habit Plants 1–5 dm; strongly rhizomatous. Plants 1.5–6 dm; rhizomatous.
Stems

usually simple, sometimes branched, glabrous to puberulent or villous.

simple or branched, villous and stipitate-glandular.

Basal leaves

withering early, usually in separate sterile rosettes, petiolate.

in 1 pair, triangular to subcordate;

petioles not or scarcely winged.

Cauline leaves

2–4 pairs;

blades ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic, 1.5–14 cm, bases rounded to attenuate, rarely truncate or cordate;

margins entire to denticulate, dentate, or serrate;

veins branching laterally;

tips acute;

surfaces glabrous to puberulent or strigose;

adaxial surfaces sometimes densely and minutely strigillose; most sessile; lower pair sometimes subsessile.

(1)2–4 pairs, often clustered near base;

blades triangular to ovate or lanceolate, 2–9 cm, bases truncate to subcordate;

margins denticulate to dentate or serrate;

tips acute to obtuse;

surfaces glabrous to pilose or villous;

petioles usually broadly winged.

Peduncles

glabrate or villous, sometimes glandular-puberulent at apex.

villous, sparingly to densely stipitate-glandular.

Involucres

cylindric to campanulate or hemispheric, 8–15 mm.

campanulate, 8–13 mm.

Ray florets

5–15;

rays 10–28 mm, yellow.

0.

Disc florets

20–90;

corollas 6–10 mm, yellow.

20–50;

corollas 5–10 mm, yellow.

Phyllaries

broadly or narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, elliptic, or linear;

tips acute or acuminate;

surfaces glabrous to pilose or villous, sometimes tomentulose or glandular-puberulent at bases.

broadly to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or linear;

tips acute;

surfaces densely pilose or villous and stipitate-glandular.

Fruits

columnar-fusiform, 5–9 mm, dark brown, glabrous to glandular-puberulent;

pappus bristles 5–7 mm, white, barbellate.

columnar-fusiform, 5–8 mm, gray or blackish, puberulent;

pappus bristles 6–8 mm, white, barbellate to subplumose.

Heads

radiate.

discoid.

2n

=38, 76.

=38, 57, 76.

Arnica latifolia

Arnica discoidea

Distribution
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Discussion

Coniferous forests, meadows, shrublands, cliffs, rocky talus, clearcuts, roadsides. Flowering May–Sep. 300–2300 m. BW, Casc, CR, ECas, Owy, Sisk. CA, ID, WA; north to AK, northeast to Alberta, east to WY, southeast to NM. Native.

Open mixed woodlands, coniferous forests, shrublands, rocky slopes and ridges, roadsides, serpentine. Flowering May–Aug. 100–1800 m. Casc, CR, ECas, Sisk. CA, NV, WA. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 185
Kenton Chambers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 184
Kenton Chambers
Sibling taxa
A. cernua, A. chamissonis, A. cordifolia, A. discoidea, A. diversifolia, A. fulgens, A. gracilis, A. lanceolata, A. longifolia, A. mollis, A. nevadensis, A. parryi, A. rydbergii, A. sororia, A. spathulata, A. viscosa
A. cernua, A. chamissonis, A. cordifolia, 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
Synonyms Arnica latifolia var. latifolia Arnica discoidea var. eradiata, Arnica grayi, Arnica parviflora, Arnica parviflora ssp. alata, Arnica parviflora ssp. parviflora
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