| Arnica lonchophylla Greene | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stem from slender, branching rhizome, puberulent and stipitate-glandular; basal leaves narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute, dentate, long-petiolated; lower stem leaves peduncled, the upper reduced, sessile; involucrum puberulent and densely glandular; involucral bracts lanceolate, acute, densely glandular; ligules 10-20 mm long, yellow; disk flowers pilose; achenes uniformly hispid; pappus white, barbel- late. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, open places. Described from the Athabasca River. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The. Alaskan plant belongs to subsp. lonchophylla; broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. chionopappa (Fern.) Maguire (A. chionopappa Fern.) in eastern North America and subsp. arnogléssa (Greene) Maguire (A. arnoglossa Greene) in the north-central United States. |
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.