General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 15-20 cm
Plant Spread: 30-40 cm
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Erosion control
Groundcover
Medicinal Herb
Will Naturalize
Suitable as Annual
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Stratify seeds: 4 weeks if sowing indoors
Depth to plant seed: cover the seeds thin
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: might get invasive in some areas
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Root
Pollinators: Self
Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Conservation status: Least Concern (LC)

Conservation status:
Conservation status: Least Concern
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Common names
  • European Arnica
  • Leafy Arnica
  • Leopard's Bane
  • Mountain Tobacco
  • Mountain Snuff
  • Sneezewort
  • Arnica

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Date: 2018-03-23

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Location: my garden ing Belgium
Date: 2011-06-24
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2010-08-28

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