Arnica L.

Arnica (en), Arnica (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae

Characteristics

Heads radiate (in our spp.) or sometimes discoid, the rays pistillate, yellow or orange, relatively few and large; invol bracts herbaceous, subequal but ± evidently biseriate; receptacle convex, naked; disk-fls perfect and fertile, yellow; style-branches flattened, truncate, penicillate; achenes cylindric, 5–10-nerved; pappus of numerous white to tawny, barbellate to subplumose, capillary bristles; perennial herbs with opposite lvs (uppermost lvs rarely alternate) and solitary to numerous, rather large, turbinate to hemispheric heads. 27, temperate and boreal parts of N. Hemisphere.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Germination duration (days) 25 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 12
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