Alpine Arnica

Arnica angustifolia ssp. angustifolia (Arnica alpina)
Family: Asteraceae Aster
Description: A variable, tufted plant with a rosette of lance-shaped leaves and a single, slender stem rising 4-12 in. and bearing a large, single flower with toothed, yellow petals and yellow disks. Sometimes two smaller lateral heads occur in the axils of the uppermost leaves. Long, narrow basal leaves become reduced in size up the stem. All leaves are long-haired.
Flower July – August.
Habitat Bare, rocky slopes and alpine summits. They like to live in dry alpine and sub-alpine slopes in the Eastern Alaska and Interior and Northern Alaska north of Fairbanks.

Photographed along the Alaska Hwy. Alaska
Canon EOS DRebel XTi
F/10
1/800 sec
28mm
ISO 400