Chorizanthe

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Chorizanthe is a genus of flowering plants in the buckwheat family, known commonly as spineflowers and native primarily to western North America.

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Label Occurrences
Chorizanthe canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf plant genus
taxon
belongsTo buckwheat family
clade Magnoliophyta
surface form: Angiosperms

Eudicots
commonName spineflowers
conservationStatus several species are rare or endangered
describedBy botanists of the 19th century
distribution Mexico NERFINISHED
United States NERFINISHED
family Polygonaceae NERFINISHED
flowerType small flowers
growthForm annual herbs
habitat chaparral
dry habitats
sandy soils
scrublands
hasSpecies Chorizanthe biloba NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe blakleyi NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe brevicornu NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe clevelandii NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe corrugata NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe fimbriata NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe howellii NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe orcuttiana NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe palmeri NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe polygonoides NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe polygonoides var. longispina NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe pungens NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe rectispina NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe rigida NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe robusta NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe spinosa NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe staticoides NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe valida NERFINISHED
Chorizanthe watsonii NERFINISHED
inflorescence clustered flowers
kingdom Plantae
morphologicalCharacteristic herbaceous plants
spiny involucres
nativeTo North America
western North America
order Caryophyllales
pollination insect-pollinated
region California Floristic Province NERFINISHED
subfamily Polygonoideae NERFINISHED
taxonRank genus
typeOf flowering plant genus

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Polygonoideae containsTaxon Chorizanthe
Eriogonoideae containsTaxon Chorizanthe