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Species
Cleome viscosa L.
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NCBI
EOL Text
"Erect profusely branched woody annual herbs. The whole plant viscous with stalked glandular hairs. Leaves 3-5(-7)-foliolate; leaflets subsessile, 0.6-3.5 x 0.3-2 cm, elliptic-oblong or obovate to spathulate, base cuneate, margins ciliate, apex obtuse, membranous, glandular pubescent; petiole up to 5 cm long. Racemes terminal, lax, few-flowered, corymbiform. Flowers 1-1.5 cm across; pedicels to 1 cm long, elongate during fruiting. Sepals 4, 4-8 x 2-3 mm, lanceolate, apex acute, glandular hairy without. Petals 4, yellow, 6-12 x 3-5 mm, obovate to oblong-spathulate, apex rounded. Stamens 12-18; filaments 6-8 mm long, broadened at tip; anthers linear. Ovary sessile, 5-7 mm long, oblong-cylindric, glandular-hairy; stigma cpitate. Capsules 5-6.5 x 0.3-0.5 cm, linear-oblong, terete, striate, densely glandular hairy. Seeds many, 1-1.5 mm across, reniform, transversely ridged, reddish-brown."
"Habit: A small erect herb, upto 50cm."
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Habit: Herb
"Notes: Western Ghats, Deciduous Forests and plantations, also in the plains"
"Weed among cultivated plants, wastelands, roadsides, etc."
Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Herb
"Locally abundant as a weed in fallow lands, wayside, dry river beds or even in very poor soils. Plains from the coast upto 900m.Native to tropical Africa, south Arabia, tropical Australia and Malaysia."
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United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Stony ground.
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"Found along roads and wastelands from plains to 400m. Common. Native of old world, from tropical Africa and Arabia to tropical Australia."
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