Index / Search / Machaeranthera tanacetifolia
§1 Plant
Machaeranthera tanacetifolia (Kunth) Nees
vernacular tanseyleaf tansyaster — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Machaeranthera
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 170 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 110 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–24 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.5–8.5
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 408,240
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 170 counties across 10 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Adams 08001
- Alamosa 08003
- Baca 08009
- Bent 08011
- Boulder 08013
- Cheyenne 08017
- Crowley 08025
- Denver 08031
- Huerfano 08055
- Kiowa 08061
- Kit Carson 08063
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Lincoln 08073
- Logan 08075
- Mesa 08077
- Montezuma 08083
- Montrose 08085
- Morgan 08087
- Otero 08089
- Prowers 08099
- Pueblo 08101
- Rio Grande 08105
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- Weld 08123
- Yuma 08125
Kansas view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Ellis 20051
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gove 20063
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Kearny 20093
- Lincoln 20105
- Logan 20109
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Rawlins 20153
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Sherman 20181
- Stevens 20189
- Thomas 20193
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
Montana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Curry 35009
- De Baca 35011
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Harding 35021
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- Luna 35029
- McKinley 35031
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
New York view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 5 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 48 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Archer 48009
- Armstrong 48011
- Bailey 48017
- Borden 48033
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Carson 48065
- Childress 48075
- Comanche 48093
- Crane 48103
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Donley 48129
- Ector 48135
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Garza 48169
- Gray 48179
- Hall 48191
- Hansford 48195
- Hartley 48205
- Hemphill 48211
- Hockley 48219
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Martin 48317
- Midland 48329
- Motley 48345
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reagan 48383
- Reeves 48389
- Roberts 48393
- Scurry 48415
- Swisher 48437
- Terrell 48443
- Ward 48475
- Winkler 48495
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MATA2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3095447 ↗Record version
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