Celandine Spider Flower
Cleome chelidonii
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Celandine Spider Flower
Identify Celandine 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.
- Confirm leaf shape: Palmately compound (five+ leaflets).
- Confirm flower colour: Purple/pink.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Capparaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Celandine Spider Flower.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cleome chelidonii
- Genus
- Cleome
- Family
- Capparaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Grows as a weed in moist places of cultivated fields
- Habitat type
- Wetland, Cultivated, Wasteland
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Siam, Malaysia, Indonesia
- Found in India
- Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Assam, Odisha, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Puducherry, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Chandigarh, Arunachal Pradesh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tripura
- 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 Celandine Spider Flower itself; the rest are typical of the Capparaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Purple/pinkrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Celandine Spider Flower itself; the rest are typical of the Capparaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Celandine Spider Flower
Celandine Spider Flower (Cleome chelidonii) belongs to the Capparaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and 28 other states. It grows in grows as a weed in moist places of cultivated fields. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Capparaceae
Caper Family
Celandine Spider Flower belongs to the Capparaceae family.
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