861201a Arnica angustifolia subsp. angustifolia
Distribution
Svalbard - Franz Joseph Land: Scattered
Western Alaska: Scattered
Northern Alaska - Yukon: Scattered
Central Canada: Frequent
Hudson Bay - Labrador: Scattered
Ellesmere Island: Rare
Western Greenland: Frequent
Eastern Greenland: Rare
Northern arctic Tundra: Presence uncertain
Mid Arctic Tundra: Scattered
Southern Arcti Tundra: Frequent
Shrub Tundra: Frequent
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent
- Arnica alpina subsp. angustifolia (Vahl) Maguire, Madroño 6: 153 (1942).
2n=
(1) 38 (2x). - Alaska, Canada (Yukon). - Wolf (1980, two counts); Downie (1988, 15 counts).
(2) 56 57 (3x). - Europe (N), Alaska, Canada, Greenland. - Several reports.
(3) 76 (4x). - Alaska, Greenland. - At least three reports.
(4) 95 (5x). - Downie (1988).
Note that diploids may be restricted to American Beringia.
Geography: North American (N) - amphi-Atlantic (W): NOR ALA CAN GRL.
Notes: Subspecies angustifolia (s. str.) is the major arctic North American race from northern Alaska east to Greenland and reaching across to Europe in Svalbard. Hultén (1968a) mapped one locality on the Chukchi Peninsula. Hultén and Fries (1986) assigned this record to subsp. iljinii and Barkalov (1992) accepted only Arnica iljinii from the Russian Far East.
Higher Taxa
- Arnica angustifolia [861201,species]