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§1 Plant
Machaeranthera bigelovii (A. Gray) Greene
vernacular Bigelow's tansyaster — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Machaeranthera
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 55 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 55 counties across 5 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Boulder 08013
- Chaffee 08015
- Clear Creek 08019
- Conejos 08021
- Costilla 08023
- Custer 08027
- El Paso 08041
- Gilpin 08047
- Grand 08049
- Huerfano 08055
- Jackson 08057
- Jefferson 08059
- La Plata 08067
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Mesa 08077
- Mineral 08079
- Park 08093
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- Teller 08119
- Weld 08123
New Mexico view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MABI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3117074 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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