About Cleomella parviflora A.Gray
Cleomella parviflora A.Gray is a species of flowering plant in the cleome family, commonly known as slender stinkweed. It is native to eastern California and western Nevada, where it grows in desert and sagebrush scrub habitats in the Mojave Desert and the southern portions of the Great Basin. This plant is an annual herb that grows a smooth, hairless, reddish stem reaching up to approximately 45 centimeters in height. It produces a small number of leaves, each divided into three elongated, fleshy leaflets. The majority of its flowers grow in a raceme at the tips of stem branches, and a small number of solitary flowers may also appear in the leaf axils. Each flower has four tiny pale yellow petals, each around 2 millimeters long. Its fruit is a lobed, valved capsule that hangs from the tip of the remaining flower receptacle.
