John Milton Bigelow
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John Milton Bigelow was an American medical doctor and botanist. He had a successful medical practice, and also, a keen interest in botany - especially native plants with medical applications.
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Sclerocactus polyancistrus (Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) Britton & Rose, first collected by J.M.Bigelow March 15, 1854, while with the Whipple Survey near Cajon Pass, CA
Helenium bigelovii A. Gray, California
Red Clintonia, endemic to Coast Redwood forests, first collected, by Bigelow, in 1854
Botanical profile representing the forest trees along the route explored by Lieut. A.W. Whipple
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John Milton Bigelow was an American medical doctor and botanist. He had a successful medical practice, and also, a keen interest in botany - especially native plants with medical applications. He participated as a botanist and surgeon on two important expeditions through the American Southwest - the Mexican Boundary Survey and the 35th Parallel Expedition for the Pacific Railroad Surveys. He also amassed a significant collection of California plants that yielded many new species. He communicated his botanical results with the three top American botanists of the day, John Torrey, Asa Gray, and George Engelmann. Many of his botanical discoveries were named after or by him. He contributed to the botanical and medical literature of his day.
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