Arnica dealbata

Mock leopardbane

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Mock leopardbane is a California native perennial found in the northern California Ranges and northern and central Sierra Nevada in open forests, meadows, and slopes at elevations of 1,200 to 2,400 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces yellow ray flowers 10 to 25 millimeters long in radiate heads 1 to 2 centimeters wide. Growing 15 to 35 centimeters tall with erect stems emerging from a long, branched rhizome, it is densely covered in short curly hairs and sessile glands. Its leaves are mostly crowded toward the stem base, with lower leaves 5 to 10 centimeters long, elliptic to oblanceolate, and upper leaves progressively smaller and narrower. The fruit is 4 to 10 millimeters long, oblong, and slightly flattened, turning brown or black when mature.

Habitat: Open forest, meadows, slopes

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1200-2400 m

Bioregions: CaR, n&ampc SN.

California counties: Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Mariposa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama, Lassen, Calaveras, San Bernardino, Trinity, Siskiyou, Tuolumne, Tulare, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.