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Cleomella sparsifolia
About
Cleomella sparsifolia is a species of flowering plant known by the common names fewleaf cleome and fewleaf spiderflower. This annual wildflower is native to California and Nevada where it grows in desert sand. This is an erect, branching plant not exceeding a meter in height. Its sparse leaves are each made up of 3 thick, oval-shaped leaflets. The bright yellow flowers have curving petals and long stamens tipped with knobby anthers. The fruit is a capsule up to 4 centimeters long.
- Family
- Cleomaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Cleomella sparsifolia
- Slug
- cleomella-sparsifolia
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cleomaceae
- Genus
- Cleomella
- Species
- sparsifolia
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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