| Arnica unalaschcensis Less. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Arnica obtusifolia Less. | ||
| Description | Stem solitary, mostly simple, from thick rhizome, covered with remains of previ- ous year’s leaves, pubescent with septate hairs; leaves obovate to spatulate or ellip- tic, the middle and upper sessile, coarsely serrate, pubescent; heads solitary; in- volucral bracts lanceolate to elliptic, glandular, densely pubescent toward apex; ligules 12-17 mm long, yellow; flowers glabrous; anthers purple; achenes short- hispidulous, with stipitate glands; pappus tawny, subplumose. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The Japanese plant, var. Tschonoskyi (Iljin) Kitamura & Hara (Arnica Tschono- skyi Iljin), has pubescent corollas. |
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.