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Narrowleaf spineflower

Chorizanthe angustifolia

Also called Narrow Leaf Spineflower

Narrowleaf spineflower is a small, hairy annual herb in the buckwheat family, native to coastal sandy soils of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties in California. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, and it needs sandy, well-drained, open ground with sun.

Family
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly; it is adapted to dry coastal sand and needs little supplemental water.
Soil
Sandy, well-drained soil.
Temperature
Mild coastal climate; tolerates cool temperatures but not hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. California
Climate
subtropical

About

Chorizanthe angustifolia is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family known by the common name narrowleaf spineflower.

It is endemic to California, where it is known only from the coastline of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, but is locally common.

Other Chorizanthe plants

Irish Hills Spineflower · Twolobe spineflower · Blakley's spineflower · Brittle spineflower · San Luis Obispo spineflower · Wrinkled spineflower · San Francisco spineflower · Diffuse spineflower · Douglas' spineflower · Fringed spineflower · Mendocino spineflower · Ramona spineflower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chorizanthe angustifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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