Arnica venosa

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Arnica venosa
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Vulnerable  (NatureServe) [1]
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Arnica
Species:
A. venosa
Binomial name
Arnica venosa

Arnica venosa is a rare California species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Shasta County arnica. [2] It should not be confused with the Mt. Shasta arnica, A. viscosa.

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Arnica venosa is endemic to the Klamath Mountains of northwestern California, where it can be found only in Shasta and Trinity Counties. [3] [4]

Description

Arnica venosa is a perennial herb usually producing one or more hairy, glandular stems up to about 50 centimeters tall. There are six to ten pairs of veiny, toothed leaves along the stem, each lance- to oval-shaped and 3 to 7 centimeters long. [5] [2]

The inflorescence bears a single flower head lined with hairy phyllaries. The head is discoid, containing only yellow disc florets, and no ray florets. [5] [2]

The fruit is an achene about 7 millimeters long, not counting its white pappus. [5] [2]

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<i>Chaenactis artemisiifolia</i> Species of flowering plant

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Arnica cernua is a species of arnica known by the common name serpentine arnica. It is native to the Klamath Mountains of northern California and southern Oregon, where it is a member of the serpentine soils flora.

<i>Arnica discoidea</i> Species of flowering plant

Arnica discoidea is a North American species of arnica in the sunflower family. It is known by the common name rayless arnica because its flower heads have disc florets but none of the showier ray florets. It is native to the woodlands, forests, and chaparral of the western United States (Washington, Oregon, California, and western Nevada.

<i>Arnica fulgens</i> Species of flowering plant

Arnica fulgens is a species of arnica known by the common names foothill arnica and hillside arnica. It is native to western North America, from British Columbia east to Saskatchewan and south as far as Inyo County, California, and McKinley County, New Mexico. It grows in open, grassy areas.

<i>Arnica latifolia</i> Species of flowering plant

Arnica latifolia is a species of arnica in the sunflower family, known by the common names broadleaf arnica, broad leaved arnica, mountain arnica, and daffodil leopardbane. It is native to western North America from Alaska east to Northwest Territories and south to Mono County, California, and Taos County, New Mexico. It grows in mountain habitat such as forest and meadows.

<i>Arnica mollis</i> Species of flowering plant

Arnica mollis is a North American species of arnica in the sunflower family, known by the common name soft arnica, or hairy arnica. It is native to Canada and the United States (Alaska and the western mountains as far south as San Bernardino County, California and Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. There are also isolated populations in the White Mountains of Coos County, New Hampshire. The species grows in subalpine mountain habitat such as meadows and streambanks.

<i>Arnica nevadensis</i> Species of flowering plant

Arnica nevadensis is a North American species of arnica in the sunflower family, known by the common names Nevada arnica and Sierra arnica. It is native to the coniferous forests of the western United States, primarily the Cascades and Sierra Nevada.

<i>Arnica sororia</i> Species of flowering plant

Arnica sororia is a North American species of flowering plant known by the common name twin arnica. It is native to Western Canada and the Western United States. It grows in grasslands and in conifer forests, as well as the sagebrush steppe.

Arnica spathulata is a rare North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, known by the common name Klamath arnica. It is native to the Klamath Mountains of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon. It grows in woodland habitat, almost exclusively on serpentine soils.

Arnica viscosa is an uncommon North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, known by the common name Mount Shasta arnica.

<i>Calycadenia multiglandulosa</i> Species of flowering plant

Calycadenia multiglandulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, known by the common names sticky calycadenia and sticky western rosinweed. It is endemic to California, where it is a common in the Coast Ranges and in the Sierra Nevada Foothills from Shasta County to Kern County.

<i>Chaenactis suffrutescens</i> Species of flowering plant

Chaenactis suffrutescens is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Shasta chaenactis.

Erigeron supplex is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names supple daisy or supple fleabane. It grows along the coastline and in the Coast Ranges in California, north of San Francisco Bay. It probably remains only in Sonoma and Marin Counties. There is a report of it growing well inland in Shasta County, but this is from a farm and probably a cultivated specimen.

<i>Arnica dealbata</i> Species of flowering plant

Arnica dealbata is a species of Californian plants in the tarweed tribe within the aster family

Agnorhiza bolanderi is a species of flowering plant known by the common name Bolander's mule's ears. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from a narrow section of the Sierra Nevada foothills about 275 kilometers long from Shasta County to Mariposa County. It grows in chaparral and grassland habitat, usually on serpentine soils.

Agnorhiza elata is a species of flowering plants known by the common name Hall's mule's ears. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from a section of the central Sierra Nevada foothills. It occurs primarily in a region stretching from Tuolumne County to Fresno County, but a few isolated populations have been found in Tulare County.

Agnorhiza ovata is a species of flowering plant known by the common name southern mule's ears. It is native to the mountains and foothills of southern California and Baja California, occurring the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada foothills in Tulare, Kern, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego counties in California, with additional populations in the Peninsular Ranges south of the international border.

<i>Arnica lanceolata</i> Species of flowering plant

Arnica lanceolata is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, known by the common name clasping arnica or lanceleaf arnica. It has a disjunct (discontinuous) distribution in western North America and northeastern North America.

References

  1. "NatureServe Explorer - Arnica venosa". NatureServe Explorer Arnica venosa. NatureServe. 2022-05-30. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Flora of North America FNA Vol. 21 Page 376 Shasta County arnica Arnica venosa H. M. Hall
  3. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  4. Calflora taxon report, University of California, Arnica venosa H.M. Hall, Shasta County arnica, Veiny arnica
  5. 1 2 3 Hall, Harvey Monroe. 1915. University of California Publications in Botany 6(7): 174–175