Arnica gracilis

Rydberg

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 24: 297. 1897.

Common names: Smallhead arnica
Endemic
Synonyms: Arnica latifolia var. gracilis (Rydberg) Cronquist
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 376. Mentioned on page 368.

Plants 10–30 cm. Stems (often 5–10 in dense clumps) branched distally. Leaves 2–3 pairs, mostly cauline (basal leaves often persistent on sterile rosettes, similar to cauline leaves); petiolate (petioles narrowly to broadly winged, distal pair of leaves often reduced, connate-perfoliate); blades ovate to ovatelanceolate, 2–6 × 1–3 cm, margins irregularly serrate to subentire, apices acute, faces: abaxial glandular, adaxial stipitate-glandular. Heads (1–) 5–15. Involucres turbinate-campanulate. Phyllaries 10–16, ovatelanceolate. Ray-florets 5–12; corollas yellow. Disc-florets: corollas yellow; anthers yellow. Cypselae black, 4.5–7 mm, hairy (hairs duplex) and stipitate-glandular; pappi white, bristles barbellate. 2n = 57, 76.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat: Dry, exposed, rocky, alpine slopes, sometimes subalpine meadows
Elevation: 1200–2500 m

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., Idaho, Mont., Oreg., Utah, Wash., Wyo.

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Arnica gracilis"
stipitate-glandular +
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
connate +  and distinct +
subequal +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lanceolate +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
corymbiform +  and cymiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Steven J. Wolf +
Rydberg +
decurrent +
compound +  and simple +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
ovate;ovatelanceolate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
winged;ribbed;winged;ribbed +
tuberculate +  and rugose +
connate +  and distinct +
Smallhead arnica +
stipitate-glandular +  and hairy +
stipitate-glandular +  and hairy +
obovoid-cylindric +, fusiform +  and conic +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Alta. +, B.C. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, Oreg. +, Utah +, Wash. +  and Wyo. +
1200–2500 m +
glabrous +, glandular +, hairy +, stipitate-glandular +, woolly +, villous +, tomentose +, scabrous +, puberulent +, pilose +, hispidulous +  and hirsute +
scabrellous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
campanulate +  and cylindric +
Dry, exposed, rocky, alpine slopes, sometimes subalpine meadows +
discoid +  and radiate +
in cymiform or corymbiform arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
turbinate-campanulate +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
deltate +
dentate to pinnatifid or palmatifid +  and entire +
irregularly serrate +  and subentire +
2-carpellate +
subplumose +  and barbellate +
persistent +
10 +  and 50 +
aristate +
Flowering Jul–Aug. +
10 +  and 16 +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
pitted +  and smooth +
distinct +
4 +  and 20 +
exalbuminous +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +  and glabrous +
papillate +
Arnica latifolia var. gracilis +
Arnica gracilis +
species +
campanulate +  and cylindric +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (300 cm3,000 mm <br />3 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br />) +
toothed +  and entire +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (300 cm3,000 mm <br />3 m <br />) +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (300 cm3,000 mm <br />3 m <br />) +