Hindawi Publishing Corporation The Scientific World Journal Volume 2013, Article ID 414363, 11 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/414363 Research Article Propagation and Introduction of Arnica montana L. into Cultivation: A Step to Reduce the Pressure on Endangered and High-Valued Medicinal Plant Species Danuta Sugier,1 Piotr Sugier,2 and Urszula Gawlik-Dziki3 1 DepartmentofIndustrialandMedicinalPlants,UniversityofLifeSciencesinLublin,Akademicka15,20-950Lublin,Poland 2 Department of Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland 3 Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Life Sciences, Skromna 8, 20-704 Lublin, Poland Correspondence should be addressed to Urszula Gawlik-Dziki;
[email protected] Received 8 August 2013; Accepted 2 September 2013 Academic Editors: T. Hatano, C. Lu, and H. Ren Copyright © 2013 Danuta Sugier et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Arnica montana (L.) is an endangered and endemic medicinal plant species in Europe. The pressure on natural sources of this plant is alleviated by a suitable use of arnica resources in the European region and introduction into cultivation. The objective of this study was to describe the impact of different ways of plant propagation and introduction on the growth and reproduction mode of this species. During the six consecutive years of the field experiment, the vegetative and reproductive traits were monitored, and survival time was assessed. The particular ways of arnica plant propagation and introduction determined all the intrinsic species traits and plant survival.