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sticky arnica

broadleaf arnica, mountain arnica

Habit Plants 1.5–4 dm; rhizomatous. Plants 1–5 dm; strongly rhizomatous.
Stems

single or branched, usually glandular-puberulent, sometimes glabrate proximally or sparsely scabrous-pilose.

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

Basal leaves

usually much reduced, withering early; round-ovate;

petioles broadly winged.

withering early, usually in separate sterile rosettes, petiolate.

Cauline leaves

2–3(4) pairs;

distal 1–2 pairs reduced and bract-like;

blades ovate to lanceolate, 2–8 cm, bases truncate or attenuate;

margins denticulate or serrate-dentate, rarely entire;

veins branching laterally;

tips acute or obtuse;

surfaces glabrous to glandular-puberulent, often gland-dotted; short-petiolate or sessile.

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.

Peduncles

glandular-puberulent.

glabrate or villous, sometimes glandular-puberulent at apex.

Involucres

turbinate, 10–15 mm.

cylindric to campanulate or hemispheric, 8–15 mm.

Ray florets

8–15;

rays 10–20 mm, yellow.

5–15;

rays 10–28 mm, yellow.

Disc florets

15–40;

corollas 7–10 mm, yellow.

20–90;

corollas 6–10 mm, yellow.

Phyllaries

lanceolate to elliptic or linear;

tips acute;

surfaces pilose and stipitate-glandular.

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.

Fruits

columnar-fusiform, 5–6.5 mm, brown or blackish, hispidulous;

pappus bristles 7–10 mm; brownish, subplumose.

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

pappus bristles 5–7 mm, white, barbellate.

Heads

radiate.

radiate.

2n

=57, 76.

=38, 76.

Arnica diversifolia

Arnica latifolia

Distribution
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Discussion

Open pine forests, grasslands, bogs, subalpine talus, cliffs, ridges. Flowering Jul–Sep. 1700–3000 m. BW, Casc. CA, ID, WA; north to AK, northeast to MT, southeast to UT. Native.

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.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 184
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. latifolia, 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. longifolia, A. mollis, A. nevadensis, A. parryi, A. rydbergii, A. sororia, A. spathulata, A. viscosa
Synonyms Arnica ovata Arnica latifolia var. latifolia
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