Rough Spider Flower
Cleome aspera
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Rough Spider Flower
Identify Rough Spider Flower by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Rough (scabrous) leaf texture.
- Confirm leaf shape: Palmately compound (five+ leaflets).
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu.
- Confirm it sits within the Capparaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Rough Spider Flower.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cleome aspera
- Genus
- Cleome
- Family
- Capparaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia
- Found in India
- Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Palmately compound (five+ leaflets)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Rough Spider Flower itself; the rest are typical of the Capparaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Rough Spider Flower itself; the rest are typical of the Capparaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Rough Spider Flower
A member of the Capparaceae family, Rough Spider Flower (Cleome aspera) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and 1 other states. It grows in deciduous forests, also in the plains. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Capparaceae
Caper Family
Rough Spider Flower belongs to the Capparaceae family.
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