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heart-leaf arnica, heart-leaf leopardbane

foothill arnica, hillside arnica, orange arnica, shining leopardbane

Habit Plants 10–40(–70) cm. Plants 10–75 cm.
Stems

usually simple, sometimes branched.

solitary, simple.

Leaves

2–4(–6) pairs, mostly cauline (basal often persistent on sterile rosettes); petiolate;

blades cordate or subcordate to ovate, 3–10 × 2–10 cm, margins dentate to coarsely dentate, apices acute to rounded, faces puberulent to sparsely villous, sometimes stipitate-glandular (especially adaxial).

3–5 pairs, crowded toward stem bases (some or all axils with dense tufts of brown wool); petiolate (petioles at least basal leaves, narrow or broadly winged);

blades (with 3 or 5 prominent, subparallel veins) usually narrowly oblanceolate to oblong, rarely oval or broadly spatulate, 4.5–20 × 0.5–2.5 cm, margins denticulate, apices obtuse, faces moderately uniformly hairy, stipitate-glandular.

Involucres

broadly campanulate.

broadly hemispheric.

Ray florets

6–13;

corollas yellow.

8–16;

corollas yellow-orange.

Disc florets

corollas yellow;

anthers yellow.

corollas yellow;

anthers yellow.

Phyllaries

10–20, narrowly ovate to lanceolate.

13–21, elliptic-oblong or narrowly to broadly lanceolate.

Heads

1, or 3–5(–10).

1(–3).

Cypselae

dark gray, 5–10 mm, sparsely to densely hirsute (hairs duplex), sometimes stipitate-glandular as well;

pappi white, bristles barbellate.

brown, 3.5–7 mm, densely hirsute, sometimes sparingly stipitate-glandular;

pappi usually white, sometimes tawny, bristles barbellate.

2n

= 38, 57, 76, 95, 114.

= 38, 57.

Arnica cordifolia

Arnica fulgens

Phenology Flowering May–Jul. Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat Conifer forests to subalpine meadows Prairies and grasslands to montane conifer forests
Elevation 500–3000 m (1600–9800 ft) 500–3000 m (1600–9800 ft)
Distribution
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AZ; CA; CO; ID; MI; MT; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NT; ON; SK; YT
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from FNA
CA; CO; ID; MT; ND; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; SK
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 374. FNA vol. 21, p. 370.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Chaenactidinae > Arnica Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Chaenactidinae > Arnica
Sibling taxa
A. acaulis, A. angustifolia, A. cernua, A. chamissonis, A. dealbata, A. discoidea, A. fulgens, A. gracilis, A. griscomii, A. lanceolata, A. latifolia, A. lessingii, A. lonchophylla, A. longifolia, A. louiseana, A. mollis, A. nevadensis, A. ovata, A. parryi, A. rydbergii, A. sororia, A. spathulata, A. unalaschcensis, A. venosa, A. viscosa
A. acaulis, A. angustifolia, A. cernua, A. chamissonis, A. cordifolia, A. dealbata, A. discoidea, A. gracilis, A. griscomii, A. lanceolata, A. latifolia, A. lessingii, A. lonchophylla, A. longifolia, A. louiseana, A. mollis, A. nevadensis, A. ovata, A. parryi, A. rydbergii, A. sororia, A. spathulata, A. unalaschcensis, A. venosa, A. viscosa
Synonyms A. cordifolia var. pumila, A. paniculata, A. whitneyi A. monocephala, A. pedunculata
Name authority Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 331. (1834) Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 527. (1813)
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