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broadleaf arnica, mountain arnica

longleaf arnica, seep-spring arnica

Habit Plants 1–5 dm; strongly rhizomatous. Plants 3–6+ dm; rhizomatous.
Stems

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

simple or branched, glandular-puberulent, sometimes glabrate proximally.

Basal leaves

withering early, usually in separate sterile rosettes, petiolate.

small, withering early.

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.

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

glabrate or villous, sometimes glandular-puberulent at apex.

pilose or glandular-puberulent.

Involucres

cylindric to campanulate or hemispheric, 8–15 mm.

campanulate or hemispheric, 7–10 mm.

Ray florets

5–15;

rays 10–28 mm, yellow.

8–13;

rays 10–20 mm, yellow.

Disc florets

20–90;

corollas 6–10 mm, yellow.

15–60;

corollas 7–9 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.

narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate to elliptic or linear;

surfaces glabrous to minutely scabrous or pilose, usually glandular-puberulent.

Fruits

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

pappus bristles 5–7 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, 76.

=57, 76.

Arnica latifolia

Arnica longifolia

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 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 185
Kenton Chambers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 185
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. 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 latifolia var. latifolia Arnica longifolia ssp. myriadenia
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