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Spider Flower Family

Cleomaceae

Includes
19 native 3 introduced 8 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Stinkweed 16 native
  • Clammyweeds 2 native
  • Spider Flowers 1 native
  • Stinkweed
  • Cleoserrata

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native spider flower family members All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Bladderpod Cleomella arborea caterpillars 2 bees 1 food 2 flowers 91
  • Yellow Beeplant Cleomella lutea caterpillars 2 bees 1 food 1 flowers 73
  • Slenderleaf Clammyweed Cleome aldenella caterpillars 2 food 1 flowers 9
  • Jackass-clover Cleomella refracta caterpillars 1 bees 1 flowers 2
  • Redwhisker Clammyweed Polanisia dodecandra caterpillars 1 food 1 flowers 29
  • Rocky Mountain Beeplant Cleomella serrulata bees 1 food 2 flowers 67
  • Mojave Stinkweed Cleomella obtusifolia bees 1
  • Slender Cleomella Cleomella parviflora bees 1
  • Twisted Cleomella Cleomella plocasperma bees 1
  • Narrowleaf Rhombopod Cleomella angustifolia flowers 1
  • Hillman's Stinkweed Cleomella hillmanii
  • Golden Beeplant Cleomella platycarpa
  • Chiricahua Mountain Stinkweed Cleomella longipes
  • James' Clammyweed Polanisia jamesii
  • Jones' Beeplant Cleomella jonesii
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