Arnica diversifolia(synonym of Arnica ovata) |
Arnica latifolia |
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sticky arnica |
broadleaf arnica, mountain arnica |
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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 |
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Distribution | ||
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 |
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Synonyms | Arnica ovata | Arnica latifolia var. latifolia |
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