About Chorizanthe breweri S.Watson
Chorizanthe breweri is a rare flowering plant in the buckwheat family. It has two common names: San Luis Obispo spineflower and Brewer's spineflower. This species is endemic to California. It has been recorded at roughly twenty locations in the Central Coast Ranges of San Luis Obispo County and the far southern part of Monterey County. It grows in the region's chaparral and woodland habitats, most often on serpentine soils. It is a small plant that produces decumbent stems that grow along the ground, and sometimes grow upright to a maximum length of around half a meter. Most of its leafy plant tissue is reddish in color and somewhat hairy. Its inflorescence is a cluster of flowers, where each individual flower is surrounded by six hairy reddish bracts with hooked tips. The flower itself is only around 3 millimeters wide, is white to red in color, and covered in hairs.
