Arnica cordifolia |
Arnica louiseana |
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heart-leaf arnica, heart-leaf leopardbane |
Lake Louise arnica, snow arnica |
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Habit | Plants 10–40(–70) cm. | Plants 5–20 cm. |
Stems | usually simple, sometimes branched. |
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). |
1–3 pairs, mostly cauline (shorter plants often with leaves crowed mostly toward bases); petiolate; blades elliptic, oblong, or ovate-lanceolate, 1.5–7.5 × 0.5–2 cm, margins usually entire, rarely denticulate or slightly undulate, apices usually obtuse, sometimes acute or acuminate, faces glabrous or hispidulous-puberulent, ± densely stipitate-glandular. |
Involucres | broadly campanulate. |
campanulate-turbinate. |
Ray florets | 6–13; corollas yellow. |
7–10; corollas yellow. |
Disc florets | corollas yellow; anthers yellow. |
corollas yellow; anthers yellow. |
Phyllaries | 10–20, narrowly ovate to lanceolate. |
10–20, narrowly lanceolate (stipitate-glandular). |
Heads | 1, or 3–5(–10). |
usually 1, sometimes 2–3 (nodding at flowering). |
Cypselae | dark gray, 5–10 mm, sparsely to densely hirsute (hairs duplex), sometimes stipitate-glandular as well; pappi white, bristles barbellate. |
brown, 3–5 mm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially sparsely hirsute or glabrous throughout, usually stipitate-glandular toward apices, sometimes densely stipitate-glandular throughout; pappi white, bristles barbellate. |
2n | = 38, 57, 76, 95, 114. |
= 76, 95. |
Arnica cordifolia |
Arnica louiseana |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Conifer forests to subalpine meadows | Exposed tundra slopes and calcareous rock slides |
Elevation | 500–3000 m [1600–9800 ft] | 1800–2100 m [5900–6900 ft] |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; MI; MT; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NT; ON; SK; YT
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AB; BC |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 374. | FNA vol. 21, p. 371. |
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Synonyms | A. cordifolia var. pumila, A. paniculata, A. whitneyi | |
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 331. (1834) | Farr: Ottawa Naturalist 20: 109. (1906) |
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