Arnica latifolia |
Arnica sororia |
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broadleaf arnica, mountain arnica |
bunch arnica, twin arnica |
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Habit | Plants 1–5 dm; strongly rhizomatous. | Plants 1.5–5 dm; rhizomatous. |
Stems | usually simple, sometimes branched, glabrous to puberulent or villous. |
simple or branched distally, densely glandular-puberulent throughout, sometimes lightly pilose. |
Basal leaves | withering early, usually in separate sterile rosettes, petiolate. |
petioles narrow or 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. |
2–4 pairs, crowded near base, reduced distally; blades broadly or narrowly elliptic-lanceolate to linear, 3–10 cm, bases attenuate or rounded; margins entire, rarely denticulate; veins parallel from bases; tips acute; surfaces glandular-puberulent, sometimes spiculate or pilose on veins, petiolate proximally, sessile distally; petioles often winged. |
Peduncles | glabrate or villous, sometimes glandular-puberulent at apex. |
densely glandular-puberulent, often villous beneath heads. |
Involucres | cylindric to campanulate or hemispheric, 8–15 mm. |
campanulate to hemispheric, 9–17 mm. |
Ray florets | 5–15; rays 10–28 mm, yellow. |
9–17; rays 15–30 mm, orange-yellow. |
Disc florets | 20–90; corollas 6–10 mm, yellow. |
15–60, 6–10 mm, yellow, with glandular trichomes. |
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. |
lanceolate or elliptic to linear; tips acute or acuminate; surfaces stipitate-glandular or glandular-puberulent, usually pilose. |
Fruits | columnar-fusiform, 5–9 mm, dark brown, glabrous to glandular-puberulent; pappus bristles 5–7 mm, white, barbellate. |
tapered, 3.5–5.5 mm; black; hispid or glandular-puberulent; pappus bristles 6–9 mm, white or straw-colored, barbellate. |
Heads | radiate. |
radiate. |
2n | =38, 76. |
=38. |
Arnica latifolia |
Arnica sororia |
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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. |
Coniferous forests, shrublands, grasslands, dry slopes, cliffs, roadsides. Flowering May–Jul. 300–2000 m. BR, BW, Col, ECas, Owy. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to Saskatchewan, east to WY, southeast to UT. 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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