Arnica fulgensPursh [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Arnica pedunculataCockerell [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Cockerell, 1916
Related name
Arnica foliosa
Arnica pedunculata
Arnica sp.
Arnica sororia
Arnica fulgens
Arnica rydbergii
Common name
Twin arnica, Flora of North America Vol. 21
Foothill arnica, Flora of North America Vol. 21
Flora
Entry for Arnica fulgens Pursh [family COMPOSITAE]
Plants 10–75 cm. Stems solitary, simple. Leaves 3–5 pairs, crowded toward stem bases (some or all axils with dense tufts of brown wool); petiolate (petioles at least basal leaves, narrow or broadly winged); blades (with 3 or 5 prom-inent, subparallel veins) usually narrowly oblanceolate to oblong, rarely oval or broadly spatulate, 4.5–20 × 0.5–2.5 cm, margins denticulate, apices obtuse, faces moderately uniformly hairy, stipitate-glandular. Heads 1(–3). Involucres broadly hemispheric. Phyllaries 13–21, elliptic-oblong or narrowly to broadly lanceolate. Ray florets 8–16; corollas yellow-orange. Disc florets: corollas yellow; anthers yellow. Cypselae brown, 3.5–7 mm, densely hirsute, sometimes sparingly stipitate-glandular; pappi usually white, sometimes tawny, bristles barbellate. 2n = 38, 57.