Chloracantha is a monotypic plant genus in the aster family containing the single species Chloracantha spinosa, the spiny chloracantha or Mexican devil-weed. It is native to Mexico and the southwestern United States, where it grows in moist or damp areas in otherwise dry habitat, such as desert and scrub. This is a rhizomatous subshrub sprawling to a maximum height around two meters, the branches lined with thornlike points. The deciduous leaves are long and oblong in...
