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Nodding Arnica - Arnica parryi
Native Species
Global Rank:
G5
State Rank:
S4
Agency Status
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MNPS Threat Rank:
C-value:
4
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General Description
Stems mostly solitary, erect, 30–70 cm. Herbage glandular, villous. Leaves: basal petiolate; blades lanceolate, entire to denticulate, 3–12 cm long; cauline 2 to 4 pairs, short-petiolate, reduced upward. Heads 3 to 9; lateral heads nodding in flower; involucre campanulate, 10–16 mm high, glandular-pubescent. Rays absent. Pappus short-barbed, stramineous. Achenes glabrous, 4–6 mm long
(Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Species Range
Range Comments
YT south to CA, NV, UT and CO (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 17
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Habitat
Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus bifarius,
Bombus mixtus, and
Bombus occidentalis (Mayer et al. 2000, Wilson et al. 2010).
References
- Literature Cited AboveLegend:
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Mayer, D.F., E.R. Miliczky, B.F. Finnigan, and C.A. Johnson. 2000. The bee fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of southeastern Washington. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 97: 25-31.- Wilson, J.S., L.E. Wilson, L.D. Loftis, and T. Griswold. 2010. The montane bee fauna of north central Washington, USA, with floral associations. Western North American Naturalist 70(2): 198-207.
- Additional ReferencesLegend: View Online Publication
Do you know of a citation we're missing?- Ament, R.J. 1995. Pioneer Plant Communities Five Years After the 1988 Yellowstone Fires. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 216 p.
- Jones, W. W. 1901. Preliminary flora of Gallatin County. M.S. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State College. 78 pp.
- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
- Martin, S.A. 1985. Ecology of the Rock Creek bighorn sheep herd, Beartooth Mountains, Montana. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 152 p.
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