Arnica latifolia |
Arnica longifolia |
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broadleaf arnica, mountain arnica |
longleaf arnica, seep-spring arnica |
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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 |
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Distribution | ||
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 | ||
Synonyms | Arnica latifolia var. latifolia | Arnica longifolia ssp. myriadenia |
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