~50, see text Chorizanthe is a genus of plants in the buckwheat family known generally as spineflowers.

These are small, squat, herbaceous plants with spiny-looking inflorescences of flowers.

The flowers may be in shades of red or yellow to white.

The bracts are pointed and sometimes tipped with a hooked awn, and the inflorescence often dries into a rounded, spiny husk.

Name derivation: The word Chorizanthe comes from the Greek roots chorizo and anthos meaning "to divide," and "flower," thus meaning "divided flowers," but actually used in reference to the divided calyx.