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broadleaf arnica, mountain arnica

bunch arnica, twin arnica

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

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.

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
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. longifolia, A. mollis, A. nevadensis, A. parryi, A. rydbergii, A. spathulata, A. viscosa
Synonyms Arnica latifolia var. latifolia
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