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{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Speciesbox
|name = Chorizanthe watsonii
|image = Chorizanthe watsonii (23225252370).jpg
|genus = Chorizanthe
|species = watsonii
|authority = [[John Torrey|Torr.]] & [[Asa Gray|A.Gray]]
}}

'''''Chorizanthe watsonii''''' (kor-i-ZAN-the WAT-son-ee-eye)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Five-tooth spineflower|url=http://www.calflora.net/bloomingplants/fivetoothspineflower.html|access-date=2022-02-18|website=www.calflora.net}}</ref> is a species of flowering plant in the [[Polygonaceae|buckwheat family]] known by the common name '''Fivetooth Spineflower''' or '''Watson's Spineflower'''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Chorizanthe watsonii Calflora|url=https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=2061|access-date=2022-02-18|website=www.calflora.org}}</ref> They are an annual herb native to the western United States including Idaho, California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Washington and Arizona, namely the [[Mojave Desert]] which runs through many of them.

==Habitat and description==
[[File:Chorizanthe watsonii (23225251870).jpg|thumb|332x332px|Chorizanthe watsonii's small yellow flowers shown clearly surrounded by its five [[bract]]s.]]
It grows in many types of desert plant communities, in areas of sandy to gravelly flats and slopes and mixed grassland including Pinyon-Juniper woodland, Joshua Tree woodland, and [[sagebrush|sagebrush scrub]].<ref name=":1" /> The warmer northern [[Mojave Desert]] and the cold [[Great Basin Desert]] finds them widely distributed<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=SEINet Portal Network - Chorizanthe watsonii|url=https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?taxon=3429&clid=4230|access-date=2022-02-18|website=swbiodiversity.org}}</ref> at elevations of 300–2400m.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=UC/JEPS: Jepson Manual treatment for CHORIZANTHE watsonii|url=https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?5936,5941,5982|access-date=2022-02-18|website=ucjeps.berkeley.edu}}</ref>

This small plant grows a woolly erect stem up to about 2-15 centimeters tall with leaves 3-20mm in length.<ref name=":3" /> The [[inflorescence]] is a cluster of flowers surrounded by five hairy greenish to reddish [[bract]]s tipped with hooked awns 1–2 mm in length.<ref name=":2" /> The flower is 0.5–1 cm in diameter and yellow in color and grow from April/May to July/August in the USA's summer months.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Burke Herbarium Image Collection|url=https://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Chorizanthe%20watsonii|access-date=2022-02-18|website=biology.burke.washington.edu}}</ref> Specimens observed in the northern areas of the range, (such as the south-east Washington's [[Palouse]] Prairies) usually have three stamens.<ref name=":2" />

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?5936,5941,5982 Jepson Manual Treatment]
*[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Chorizanthe+watsonii Photo gallery]

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[[Category:Chorizanthe|watsonii]]
[[Category:North American desert flora]]
[[Category:Flora of the California desert regions]]
[[Category:Flora of the Western United States]]
[[Category:Flora of the Southwestern United States]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1870]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Asa Gray]]
[[Category:Taxa named by John Torrey]]
[[Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status]]

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Chorizanthe watsonii - Revision history

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