Arnica cordifolia |
Arnica spathulata |
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heart-leaf arnica, heart-leaf leopardbane |
Klamath arnica, spatulate arnica |
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Habit | Plants 10–40(–70) cm. | Plants 15–45+ cm. |
Stems | usually simple, sometimes branched. |
simple or branched. |
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, sometimes crowded toward bases (basal leaves often persistent on sterile rosettes); petiolate (petioles mostly broadly winged, 1–9 × 0.2–1.5 cm); blades elliptic-ovate to spatulate, 2–8 × 1–4 cm, margins subentire to mostly irregularly dentate, apices acute, faces sparsely to densely villous, stipitate-glandular. |
Involucres | broadly campanulate. |
turbinate-campanulate. |
Ray florets | 6–13; corollas yellow. |
0. |
Disc florets | corollas yellow; anthers yellow. |
15–50; corollas yellow; anthers yellow. |
Phyllaries | 10–20, narrowly ovate to lanceolate. |
8–15, broadly to narrowly lanceolate. |
Heads | 1, or 3–5(–10). |
1, or 3–9(–25). |
Cypselae | dark gray, 5–10 mm, sparsely to densely hirsute (hairs duplex), sometimes stipitate-glandular as well; pappi white, bristles barbellate. |
black, 5–10 mm, sparsely stipitate-glandular; pappi white, bristles barbellate. |
2n | = 38, 57, 76, 95, 114. |
= 38, 76. |
Arnica cordifolia |
Arnica spathulata |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Conifer forests to subalpine meadows | Usually serpentine soils, open, dry oak–conifer forests, disturbed areas |
Elevation | 500–3000 m [1600–9800 ft] | 200–1500 m [700–4900 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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CA; OR
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 374. | FNA vol. 21, p. 376. |
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Synonyms | A. cordifolia var. pumila, A. paniculata, A. whitneyi | A. eastwoodiae, A. spathulata subsp. eastwoodiae, A. spathulata var. eastwoodiae |
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 331. (1834) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 103. (1896) |
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