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Chorizanthe rigida
Also called Spiny Chorizanthe, Turkshead, Rigid Spineflower, Spine Herb
Devil's spineflower is a small, spiny annual wildflower of the buckwheat family that grows quickly after spring rains and dries into a spiny skeleton by early summer. It is a wild desert plant rarely grown as a garden or houseplant, so care is mainly about matching desert rainfall and sun.
Chorizanthe rigida, with the common names of devil's spineflower, rigid spineflower, spiny-herb, rigid spiny-herb, is an annual plant in the family Polygonaceae the buckwheats. It is a member of the genus Chorizanthe, the spineflowers and is found in the southwestern United States and northwest Mexico, in the states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Baja California, and Sonora.
Chorizanthe rigida is a common desert plant found in the Sonoran and Mojave Desert – in bajadas (washes), flat mesas that flood with annual rains, and rocky hillsides and ridgelines. A locale range example is its presence in most habitats of the Muggins Mountains Wilderness in southwestern Arizona.
Narrowleaf spineflower · 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
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chorizanthe rigida 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.
