Arnica lessingii (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene is a plant in the Asteraceae family, order Asterales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Arnica lessingii (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene

Arnica lessingii (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene

Nodding arnica (Arnica lessingii) is a Bering Strait-region arnica species in the sunflower family, native to Russia and North America.

Family
Genus
Arnica
Order
Asterales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Arnica lessingii (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene

Arnica lessingii (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene, commonly called nodding arnica, is an arnica species belonging to the sunflower family. It is native to regions on both sides of the Bering Strait: in North America, it grows in Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories; in Russia, it occurs on the Kamchatka Peninsula along Russia's Pacific Coast.

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Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Asterales Asteraceae Arnica

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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