| Family | ASTERACEAE |
| Genus species | Arnica lessingii Greene trib. Heliantheae |
| Bibliography | Pittonia 4: 167 (1900) |
| Native Range | Kamtschatka, Subarctic America to w. Canada |
| Primary Biome | Subarctic |
| Habitat | tundra |
| Altitude | 0-1500m |
| Description | leaves petiolate, elliptic to lanceolate, subentire, acute or obtuse, abaxially glabrous, adaxially sparsely hirsute, capitula solitary, pendent, involucre brown hirsute |
| Size | 10-35cm |
| Color | yellow |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Arnica angustifolia var. lessingii Torr. & A.Gray Arnica lessingii ssp. genuina Maguire Arnica lessingii ssp. norbergii Hultén & Maguire Arnica stricta var. lessingii (Torr. & A.Gray) Torr. & A.Gray |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) |