Arnica parryi |
Arnica lonchophylla |
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nodding arnica, Parry's arnica |
alpine arnica, arnica lonchophylle, long-leaf arnica, northern arnica |
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Habit | Plants 15–50(–60) cm. | Plants 12–50 cm. |
Stems | simple or branched among heads. |
usually simple, rarely branched. |
Leaves | (2–)3–4 pairs, basal and cauline (basal usually withered by flowering, petiolate or subsessile, blades ovate or nearly round to oblong-ovate, much smaller than cauline; sterile rosettes often present, proximal cauline often crowded toward stems bases); petiolate; blades broadly to narrowly lanceolate, oblong-ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or round, 4–22 × 1–6 cm, (bases obtuse or cuneate to truncate) margins usually entire, sometimes sparsely denticulate, faces scantily to moderately pilose (hairs white), adaxial sparsely stipitate-glandular (distal cauline leaves sessile, extremely reduced, nearly linear to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate). |
3–7 pairs, mostly cauline; petiolate (petioles, at least proximal, relatively narrow, ± equaling blades); blades narrowly to broadly lanceolate or ovate, 3.5–14 × 0.5–3.7 cm, margins regularly dentate or denticulate, apices acute, faces glabrous or moderately pilose, sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular. |
Involucres | turbinate to narrowly campanulate. |
campanulate-turbinate. |
Ray florets | usually 0 (sometimes peripheral florets pistillate; corollas yellow, laminae rudimentary). |
6–17; corollas yellow. |
Disc florets | 20–50; corollas yellow (1 or more lobes sometimes expanded, giving appearance of laminae); anthers yellow. |
corollas yellow; anthers yellow. |
Phyllaries | 8–20, linear to narrowly lanceolate. |
6–14, lanceolate (apices acute). |
Heads | (1–)3–9(–14; often nodding in bud). |
3–8 (erect). |
Cypselae | brown to black, 4–7 mm, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular to densely hirsute; pappi usually stramineous, rarely tawny, bristles barbellate to ± subplumose. |
gray to brown, 3–6 mm, densely hirsute, sometimes stipitate-glandular; pappi white, bristles barbellate. |
2n | = 38, 57, 76. |
= 38, 57, 76. |
Arnica parryi |
Arnica lonchophylla |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Sep. | Flowering June–Aug. |
Habitat | Open conifer forests to alpine meadows | Dry to mesic, open montane slopes, open woodlands, stream gravels, shorelines, calcareous rocky outcrops, to lowland Arctic tundra |
Elevation | 500–3800 m (1600–12500 ft) | 0–1500 m (0–4900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; YT
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AK; SD; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 373. | FNA vol. 21, p. 370. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Chaenactidinae > Arnica | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Chaenactidinae > Arnica |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | A. angustifolia subsp. eradiata, A. parryi subsp. sonnei, A. parryi var. sonnei | A. alpina subsp. lonchophylla, A. angustifolia subsp. lonchophylla, A. arnoglossa, A. chionopappa, A. gaspensis, A. lonchophylla subsp. arnoglossa, A. lonchophylla subsp. chionopappa |
Name authority | A. Gray: Amer. Naturalist 8: 213. (1874) | Greene: Pittonia 4: 164. (1900) |
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