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Narrowleaf Arnica

Arnica angustifolia Vahl

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Plants 5–40 cm. Stems usually simple, rarely branched. Leaves 1–5 pairs, mostly cauline; petio-late (petioles broadly to narrowly winged, shorter than blades); blades broadly lanceolate to linear, 2–20 × 0.3–4 cm, margins entire or irregularly denticulate or dentate, apices acute or acuminate, faces glabrous or densely woolly-villous and stipitate-glandular. Heads 1–3(–5; erect). Involucres hemispheric. Phyllaries 9–22, usually narrowly to broadly lanceolate, sometimes oblanceolate. Ray florets 6–16; corollas yellow. Disc florets: corollas yellow; anthers yellow. Cypselae brown, 3–8 mm, densely hirsute, rarely glandular; pappi white, bristles barbellate.
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Flora of North America Vol. 21: 368, 369 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Synonym

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Arnica alpina subsp. angustifolia (Vahl) Maguire; A. alpina (Linnaeus) Olin & Ladau var. angustifolia (Vahl) Fernald
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Flora of North America Vol. 21: 368, 369 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Arnica angustifolia

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Arnica angustifolia is an Arctic and alpine species of plants in the sunflower family, known by the common names narrowleaf arnica[2] and Arctic arnica.[3] It is native to colder regions in Europe, Asia, and North America (northern and western Canada, Alaska, northern Rocky Mountains.[4]

Subspecies[1][5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Arnica angustifolia Vahl". The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC). Retrieved 2016-02-09 – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
  2. ^ Wolf, Steven J. (2006). "Arnica angustifolia". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 21. New York and Oxford. Retrieved 2016-02-09 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  3. ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  4. ^ "Arnica angustifolia". State-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  5. ^ "Panarctic Flora, 861201 Arnica angustifolia Vahl". nhm2.uio.no. Retrieved 2016-02-09.

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Arnica angustifolia: Brief Summary

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Arnica angustifolia is an Arctic and alpine species of plants in the sunflower family, known by the common names narrowleaf arnica and Arctic arnica. It is native to colder regions in Europe, Asia, and North America (northern and western Canada, Alaska, northern Rocky Mountains.

Subspecies Arnica angustifolia subsp. alpina (L.) I.K.Ferguson - Norway, Sweden Arnica angustifolia subsp. angustifolia - Eurasia, North America Arnica angustifolia subsp. attenuata (Greene) G.W.Douglas & Ruyle-Dougl. - Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ungava Arnica angustifolia subsp. iljinii (Maguire) I.K.Ferguson - Russia Arnica angustifolia subsp. lonchophylla (Greene) G.W.Douglas & Ruyle-Dougl. - British Columbia Arnica angustifolia subsp. sornborgeri (Fernald) - Quebec, Labrador, Newfoundland Arnica angustifolia subsp. tomentosa (J.M.Macoun) G.W.Douglas & Ruyle-Dougl. - Canadian Rockies, Montana, Quebec, Newfoundland
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