Plants prostrate to spreading or somewhat erect. Leaf blades lanceolate to ovate or spatulate. Stems not disarticulating at each node. Inflorescences: bracts with or without awns. Involucres cylindric, campanulate, or urceolate, occasionally ventricose basally, 3-angled, 6-ribbed, 6-toothed, with or without membranous or scarious margins continuous across sinuses; awns unequal, typically with anterior one longest. Flowers 1; perianth white, yellow, rose, red, maroon, dark purple, or lavender, thinly pubescent; stamens 3–9; filaments adnate at base of floral tube. Achenes light brown to dark brown, lenticular or globose-lenticular.

Distribution

w United States, nw Mexico.

Discussion

Species 31 (25 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

James L. Reveal +
Nuttall +
w United States +  and nw Mexico. +
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia +
Chorizanthe sect. Anisogonum +, Chorizanthe sect. Eriogonellopsis +  and Chorizanthe sect. Herbaceae +
Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala +
Chorizanthe subg. Amphietes +
section +