Cleome rubellaBurch.

pretty lady

WFO wfo-0000611561 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cleome rubella, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. a Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-03-06 / obs. 181954720
Cleome rubella, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. b Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119639461
Cleome rubella, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. c Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64592158
Cleome rubella, photographed by Henry de Lange
fig. d Henry de Lange, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87288207
Cleome rubella, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59190820
Cleome rubella, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59191269
Cleome rubella, photographed by Antoinette Eyssell Knox
fig. g Antoinette Eyssell Knox, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31727492
Cleome rubella, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. h Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119980755

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Cleome rubella is native: Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Free State, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Zambia AngolaBotswanaCape ProvincesFree StateNamibiaNorthern ProvincesZambia
Native distribution of Cleome rubella, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Botswana BOT
Cape Provinces CPP
Free State OFS
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Zambia ZAM

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 2 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 rupestris Sond.
  • Sieruela rubella (Burch.) Roalson & J.C.Hall

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

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