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.

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light-brown;dark-brown +
globose-lenticular +  and lenticular +
maroon +  and red or cream +
oval +  and oblong +
James L. Reveal +
Nuttall +
alternating +
unequal +
alternate +  and rosulate +
stipelike +
awn-tipped +  and simple +
linear;oblanceolate or spatulate +
deciduous +
distinct +
glandular +, woolly-floccose +, tomentose +, strigose +, villous +, hirsute +  and pubescent +
scale-like +
disarticulating +, dichotomous +, branched +  and open +
erect +  and spreading +
just below the soil surface or and above the soil surface +  and spreading +
w United States +  and nw Mexico +
curved +  and straight +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
white +  and pink or rose maroon or purple or yellow +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
unwinged +  and winged +
black +, red +, brown +  and yellowish +
exserted +  and included +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
spheroidal +, 4-gonous +, lenticular +, biconvex +, discoid +, 3-gonous +  and 2-gonous +
uniparous +, capitate +  and cymose +
cymelike +, paniclelike +, racemelike +  and spikelike +
connate +  and free +
6-toothed +, 3-angled +, ventricose +, urceolate +, campanulate +  and cylindric +
nonmembranous +
lanceolate +  and ovate or spatulate +
in whorls +, opposite +, alternate +  and rosulate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
cauline +  and basal +
bractlike +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
lobed +, undulate +, crisped +, crenulate +  and entire +
scarious +  and membranous +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
accrescent +
curved +  and straight +
erect to deflexed +
lavender;dark purple;lavender;dark purple;maroon;red;rose;yellow;white +
cylindric +  and campanulate +
accrescent +
fleshy +, indurate +  and membranous +
with extrafloral nectaries +  and not articulate +
homostylous +  and 3-carpellate +
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia +
, +  and solid +
slender;stout +
3 +  and 9 +
not disarticulating +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
prostrate +  and erect +
penicillate +, fimbriate +  and capitate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
2-lobed +  and cylindric +
coriaceous +  and membranous +
consisting of a series +  and tubular +
distinct +
erect;spreading +
spreading;erect +
Chorizanthe sect. Anisogonum +, Chorizanthe sect. Eriogonellopsis +  and Chorizanthe sect. Herbaceae +
chambered +, , +  and solid +
slender +  and stout +
Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala +
Chorizanthe subg. Amphietes +
section +
lobed +  and laciniate +
coriaceous +
shallow +
erect +  and spreading +
unequal +
persistent +
membranous +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
erect;prostrate;spreading +
3 +, 2 +  and 1 +