Bigelovia


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Read about Bigelovia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Bigelovia (after Dr. Jacob Bigelow, author of Florula Bostoniensis, Medical Botany of United States, etc.)- Frequently written Bigelowia. Compositae. More than thirty species of western American herbs or low shrubs, one or two of which are sometimes offered by dealers in native plants.

Heads 3-30-fld., without ray fls., small; involucre narrow, its bracts mostly lacking herbaceous tips. The only species in cult. is the one originally described, which resembles a goldenrod, to which Bigelovia is very closely related. It differs in not having the racemiform infl. of goldenrods. Prop, by cuttings and by seed.


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