| Arnica chamissonis subsp. foliolosa (Nutt.) Maguire | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Arnica foliolosa Nutt. | ||
| Description | Similar to subsp. Chamissonis, but involucrum with septate, not moniliform, hairs; cauline leaves petiolate with entire margins, or denticulate; pappus mostly barbellate. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Some specimens belong to var. incana (Gray) Hult. [A. foliosa var. incana Gray; A. Chamissonis subsp. incana (Gray) Maguire; A. incana (Gray) Greene], with silvery-tomentose herbage. Subsp. foliolosa described from “the alluvial flats of the Colorado of the west, particularly near Bear River of the lake Timpanogos™; var. incana described from the “Sierra Valley in deep water, strange to say but true.” |
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.