| Arnica lessingii Greene | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Arnica porsildorum Boiv. | ||
| Description | Stem mostly solitary, from slender, scaly rhizome, pilose with septate hairs, espe- cially above; leaves mostly basal, lanceolate, oblanceolate to elliptic, more or less dentate, pubescent above, ciliolate; heads solitary, nodding; involucral bracts lance- olate to lance-elliptic, obtuse, dark purplish, densely pubescent below, ciliolate; ligule pale-yellow, 14-20 mm long; anthers purple; achenes strigose to glabrescent; pappus tawny, barbellate. | ||
| Ecology | Alpine and subalpine meadows. Described from “Alaskan shores and islands.” |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.