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 Rigid spineflower (C. rigida) | ||||||||||||
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Chorizanthe is a genus of plants in the buckwheat family known generally as spineflowers. These are small, squat, herbaceous plants with spiny-looking inflorescences of flowers. The flowers may be in shades of red or yellow to white. The bracts are pointed and sometimes tipped with a hooked awn, and the inflorescence often dries into a rounded, spiny husk. Spineflowers are found in western North America and South America.
Selected species:
- Chorizanthe angustifolia - narrowleaf spineflower
- Chorizanthe blakleyi - Blakley's spineflower
- Chorizanthe brevicornu - brittle spineflower
- Chorizanthe breweri - San Luis Obispo spineflower
- Chorizanthe corrugata - wrinkled spineflower
- Chorizanthe cuspidata - San Francisco spineflower
- Chorizanthe douglasii - San Benito spineflower
- Chorizanthe howellii - Mendocino spineflower
- Chorizanthe membranacea - pink spineflower
- Chorizanthe obovata - spoonsepal spineflower
- Chorizanthe orcuttiana - San Diego spineflower
- Chorizanthe pungens - Monterey spineflower
- Chorizanthe rectispina - prickly spineflower
- Chorizanthe rigida - devil's spineflower, rigid spineflower
- Chorizanthe staticoides - turkish rugging
- Chorizanthe stellulata - starlet spineflower
- Chorizanthe valida - Sonoma spineflower
- Chorizanthe watsonii - fivetooth spineflower
- Chorizanthe wheeleri - Santa Barbara spineflower
- Chorizanthe xanti - Riverside spineflower