| Arnica latifolia Bong. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stem mostly solitary, simple or branched, from branching, scaly rhizome, glandu- lar below, pubescent above; basal leaves long-petiolated, ovate to lanceolate or subcordate, soon withering; stem leaves in 2—4 pairs, sessile, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, serrate-dentate, the upper large; heads smaller than in A. cordi- folia; involucrum hispidulous-puberulent and glandular; involucral bracts lanceo- late to oblanceolate, acuminate; ligules 12-22 mm long, yellow; disk corollas pubes- cent; achenes glabrous or nearly so; pappus white, barbellate. | ||
| Ecology | In the mountains to at least 2,000 meters in the Yukon. |
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.