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Your search found 2 taxa.

flower (or pollen cone) --- sepals or bracts leaf (or frond) fruit (or sori) sortable table of key characters habitat, distribution, plant origin, and/or botanical drawing

Common Name: Cleome, Spiderflower, Pinkqueen
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Tarenaya hassleriana
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cleome hassleriana
(?) (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Cleome houtteana 087-01-001
LESS THAN (MISAPPLIED) Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952) Cleome spinosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933) Neocleome spinosa

Petals clawed, claw 1-1.5cm long. Filaments 4-6cm long (longer than petals), per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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Common Name: Cleome, Fringed Spiderflower
Weakley's Flora: (5/15/11) Cleome rutidosperma
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cleome rutidosperma
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America Cleome rutidosperma

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