Arnica latifolia |
Arnica rydbergii |
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broadleaf arnica, mountain arnica |
Rydberg's arnica, subalpine arnica |
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Habit | Plants 1–5 dm; strongly rhizomatous. | Plants 0.8–3 dm; rhizomatous. |
Stems | usually simple, sometimes branched, glabrous to puberulent or villous. |
simple, strigose or villous, usually stipitate-glandular. |
Basal leaves | withering early, usually in separate sterile rosettes, petiolate. |
usually in separate sterile rosettes; petioles winged or not. |
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. |
2–4 pairs; blades lanceolate or elliptic, 2–6 cm, bases attenuate or rounded; margins entire or denticulate distally; veins parallel from bases; tips acute; surfaces sparsely to moderately pubescent; short-petiolate or sessile. |
Peduncles | glabrate or villous, sometimes glandular-puberulent at apex. |
stipitate-glandular, usually also villous. |
Involucres | cylindric to campanulate or hemispheric, 8–15 mm. |
campanulate-turbinate, 7–22 mm. |
Ray florets | 5–15; rays 10–28 mm, yellow. |
6–10; rays 14–30 mm, yellow |
Disc florets | 20–90; corollas 6–10 mm, yellow. |
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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 to oblanceolate or elliptic; tips acute; surfaces ± pilose or tomentose at base or throughout, stipitate-glandular. |
Fruits | columnar-fusiform, 5–9 mm, dark brown, glabrous to glandular-puberulent; pappus bristles 5–7 mm, white, barbellate. |
columnar-fusiform, 4–7 mm, brown or blackish; hirsute; pappus bristles 5–7 mm, white, barbellate. |
Heads | radiate. |
radiate. |
. disc florets | 20–60; corollas 6–9 mm, yellow. |
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2n | =38, 76. |
=38, 76. |
Arnica latifolia |
Arnica rydbergii |
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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. |
Alpine meadows, rocky slopes and ridges. Flowering Jul–Aug. 2200–2700 m. BW. ID, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to Alberta, east to SD, southeast to CO. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 185 Kenton Chambers |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 186 Kenton Chambers |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Arnica latifolia var. latifolia | |
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