Cleome hispidula(DC.) Govaerts

WFO wfo-0001423241 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Cleome hispidula, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. a Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-08 / obs. 162675243
Cleome hispidula, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. b Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162675289
Cleome hispidula, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. c Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162675368
Cleome hispidula, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. d Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177954575
Cleome hispidula, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. e Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162675236

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Cleome hispidula is native: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru ColombiaEcuadorPeru
Native distribution of Cleome hispidula, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cleome densiflora var. pallens Planch. & Linden
  • Cleome hirsuta Ruiz & Pav. ex DC.
  • Cleome lateralis Triana & Planch.
  • Cleome macrothyrsus Triana & Planch.
  • Gynandropsis brachycarpa DC.
  • Gynandropsis briquetiana Diels
  • Gynandropsis hispidula DC.
  • Gynandropsis lateralis (Triana & Planch.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Gynandropsis macrothyrsus (Planch. & Triana) J.F.Macbr.
  • Pedicellaria lateralis (Triana & Planch.) Cuatrec.
  • Pedicellaria lehmannii Hieron.
  • Podandrogyne brachycarpa (DC.) Woodson
  • Podandrogyne densiflora f. pallens (Planch. & Linden) Iltis & Cochrane
  • Podandrogyne hispidula (DC.) Cochrane

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.