Cleome gynandra L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Cleomaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Annual, bright green, clammy-pubescent. Stem 5-10 dm. tall, branching; leaf-blades palmately 3-5-foliolate; petioles longer than the leaflets; leaflets 2-6 cm. long, oval to obovate, acute or short-acuminate, serrulate; racemes 1-4 dm. long; bracts suborbicular, oval or broadly obovate; sepals lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, acuminate; petals white or pink, 5-10 mm. long; blades suborbicular, longer than the claws; stamens 6; capsules linear, 4-6 cm. long, surpassing the glandular pedicel in length; seeds 1-5 mm. broad, coarsely rugose and muricate.
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Distribution
Waste and cultivated lands, New Providence at Grant's Town : Bermuda ; southern United States ; West Indies and tropical continental America. Native of the Old World tropics. Small Spider-flower.
New Providence Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| West Indies|