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Also known as mountain tobacco

Arnica is a genus of perennial, herbaceous plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The genus name Arnica may be derived from the Greek arni, "lamb", in reference to the plants' soft, hairy leaves. Arnica is also known by the names mountain tobacco and, confusingly, '''''leopard's bane and wolfsbane'''—two names that it shares with the entirely unrelated genus Aconitum''.

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Genus

  1. PhylumTracheophyta
  2. ClassMagnoliopsida
  3. OrderAsterales
  4. FamilyCompositae
Native toAlabama, Alaska, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Altay, Arizona, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria
Observations16,309

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  • ''Arnica montana''
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Arnica is a genus of perennial, herbaceous plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The genus name Arnica may be derived from the Greek arni, "lamb", in reference to the plants' soft, hairy leaves. Arnica is also known by the names mountain tobacco and, confusingly, '''''leopard's bane and wolfsbane'''—two names that it shares with the entirely unrelated genus Aconitum.

This circumboreal and montane (subalpine) genus occurs mostly in the temperate regions of western North America, with a few species native to the Arctic regions of northern Eurasia and North America.

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