Machaeranthera tanacetifolia (Kunth) Nees

Annuals or biennials, 5–100 cm. Leaves 8–110 × 4–40 mm. Involucres hemispheric, 6–11 mm. Phyllaries (24–)40–80(–100) in 3–6 series, linear-lanceolate to linear, 4–11 × 0.5–1.2 mm, apices usually spreading to reflexed, sometimes appressed, long-acuminate. Receptacles flat to convex, 3.5–8(–10) mm diam. Ray florets 12–40(–50); laminae 8–20 × 1–3.5 mm. Disc florets (18–)40–160; corollas 4–7 mm, glabrous or glabrate; lobes 0.3–0.7(–1) mm, glabrous. Cypselae 2–3.5(–4) mm; pappi 2–8 mm. 2n = 8.

Can be grown by seedlings.