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Arnica viscosa (Mount Shasta arnica)

Synonyms: Chrysopsis shastensis; Raillardella paniculata

Wikipedia Abstract

Arnica viscosa is an uncommon North American species of arnica in the sunflower family, known by the common name Mount Shasta arnica (not to be confused with the Shasta County arnica, A. venosa). It is native to the Klamath Mountains and nearby southern Cascade Range in northern California (Shasta, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties) and southern Oregon (Josephine, Douglas, Klamath, and Deschutes Counties). It grows in subalpine to alpine habitats.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Crater Lake National Park II 180091 Oregon, United States

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0