Arnica lonchophylla

Greene

Pittonia 4: 164. 1900.

Common names: Longleaf arnica northern arnica arnica lonchophylle
Endemic
Synonyms: Arnica alpina subsp. lonchophylla (Greene) G. W. Douglas & Ruyle-Douglas Arnica angustifolia subsp. lonchophylla (Greene) G. W. Douglas & Ruyle-Douglas Arnica arnoglossa Greene Arnica chionopappa Fernald Arnica gaspensis Fernald Arnica lonchophylla subsp. arnoglossa (Greene) Maguire Arnica lonchophylla subsp. chionopappa (Fernald) Maguire
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 370. Mentioned on page 368.

Plants 12–50 cm. Stems usually simple, rarely branched. Leaves 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. Heads 3–8 (erect). Involucres campanulate-turbinate. Phyllaries 6–14, lanceolate (apices acute). Ray-florets 6–17; corollas yellow. Disc-florets: corollas yellow; anthers yellow. Cypselae gray to brown, 3–6 mm, densely hirsute, sometimes stipitate-glandular; pappi white, bristles barbellate. 2n = 38, 57, 76.


Phenology: Flowering June–Aug.
Habitat: Dry to mesic, open montane slopes, open woodlands, stream gravels, shorelines, calcareous rocky outcrops, to lowland Arctic tundra
Elevation: 0–1500 m

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), N.W.T., N.S., Nunavut, Ont., Que., Sask., Yukon, Alaska, S.Dak., Wyo.

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Arnica lonchophylla"
76 +, 57 +  and 38 +
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 +
Greene +
decurrent +
compound +  and simple +
3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br /> (14 cm140 mm <br />0.14 m <br />) +
ovate;lanceolate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (3.7 cm37 mm <br />0.037 m <br />) +
winged;ribbed;winged;ribbed +
tuberculate +  and rugose +
connate +  and distinct +
Longleaf arnica +, northern arnica +  and arnica lonchophylle +
stipitate-glandular +  and hairy +
gray +  and brown +
stipitate-glandular +  and hirsute +
obovoid-cylindric +, fusiform +  and conic +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, N.B. +, Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.) +, N.W.T. +, N.S. +, Nunavut +, Ont. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Yukon +, Alaska +, S.Dak. +  and Wyo. +
0–1500 m +
moderately pilose +  and sparsely densely stipitate-glandular +
scabrellous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
campanulate +  and cylindric +
Dry to mesic, open montane slopes, open woodlands, stream gravels, shorelines, calcareous rocky outcrops, to lowland Arctic tundra +
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 />) +
campanulate-turbinate +
3 (?) +  and 7 (?) +
deltate +
dentate to pinnatifid or palmatifid +  and entire +
denticulate +  and dentate +
2-carpellate +
subplumose +  and barbellate +
persistent +
10 +  and 50 +
aristate +
Flowering June–Aug. +
6 +  and 14 +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
pitted +  and smooth +
distinct +
4 +  and 20 +
exalbuminous +
branched +  and simple +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +  and glabrous +
papillate +
Arnica alpina subsp. lonchophylla +, Arnica angustifolia subsp. lonchophylla +, Arnica arnoglossa +, Arnica chionopappa +, Arnica gaspensis +, Arnica lonchophylla subsp. arnoglossa +  and Arnica lonchophylla subsp. chionopappa +
Arnica lonchophylla +
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 />) +