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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Arnica acaulis   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arnica acaulis   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Arnica acaulis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Arnica acaulis

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-21-001:

Arnica acaulis   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Arnica acaulis

 

COMMON NAME:
Leopard's-bane, Southeastern Arnica


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image of Arnica acaulis, Leopard's-bane, Southeastern Arnica

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_arac3_001_lvd

        

image of Arnica acaulis, Leopard's-bane, Southeastern Arnica

Will Stuart    wil_8422866763_e1e4a681d8

April    Orange County    NC

North Carolina Botanical Garden

A branched inflorescence has up to about 30 flower heads, each w 10-15 rays, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Arnica acaulis, Leopard's-bane, Southeastern Arnica

Alan S. Weakley    asw_901162260949640

May        NC

Roadside

Leaves nearly all basal, with prominent subparallel veins, faces hirsute and stipitate-glandular, per Flora of North America.

image of Arnica acaulis, Leopard's-bane, Southeastern Arnica

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10216398185243272

June        

Nutlets black, tapered from base to apex, slightly prismatic; pappus yellowish-white, capillary, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Arnica acaulis   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arnica acaulis   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Arnica acaulis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Arnica acaulis

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-21-001:
Arnica acaulis   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Arnica acaulis

 

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1984

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, clayey or sandy oak and oak-pine woodlands, powerline rights-of-way, roadbanks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain, uncommon in Carolina Piedmont (rare in GA)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
Leaves sessile
Margins mostly entire

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Black
Achene

 

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