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Cleomella angustifolia
Torr.
Family:
Cleomaceae
Northern Stinkweed,
more...
narrowleaf rhombopod
FNA
Resources
Staria S. Vanderpool in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Plants
(30-)40-150(-200) cm.
Stems
sparsely branched distally (central stem dominant); glaucous, glabrous.
Leaves:
stipules (± deciduous) 2-4-fid, 0.5-1 mm (scarious); petiole 0.7-2.8 cm; leaflet blade linear to elliptic, 2.3-5.5 × 0.2-0.8 cm, thin, margins entire, apex acute, surfaces glabrous.
Inflorescences
racemes, terminating stems and branches, 1-6 cm (10-40 cm in fruit); bracts trifoliate proximally, unifoliate distally, 7-15 mm.
Pedicels
reflexed in fruit, 5-10 mm (6-13 mm in fruit).
Flowers:
sepals yellow, deltate, 1-2.2 × 0.5-1 mm, glabrous; petals orange-yellow, ovate, (3-)4-5(-6) × 1-2 mm, glabrous; stamens yellow, 7-10 mm; anthers 1.5-2.2 mm; gynophore reflexed, 4-7 mm in fruit; ovary rhomboidal, 1-1.5 mm; style 0.3-0.5 mm.
Capsules
rhomboidal, 4-6 × 6-12 mm, glabrous.
Seeds
2-4(-6), gray with black mottling, reniform, 2-3 mm, rugose.
Flowering mid spring-summer. Pond shores, stream bottoms, roadsides, grasslands, heavy alkaline clayey or sandy soils; 200-1200 m; Colo., Kans., Nebr., Okla., Tex.
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