General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Plant Height: 1 to 3 feet
Fruit: Edible to birds
Other: Slender, 1 to 2 inch long upward projecting capsule containing numerous reddish-brown seeds.
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Other: Cream to white petals with reddish-purple stamens extending beyond the petals.
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic
Uses: Will Naturalize
Suitable as Annual
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Suitable for wintersowing
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

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Common names
  • Clammyweed
  • Dwarf Cleome
  • Clammy Weed

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Location: Arenas Valley, NM
Date: 2009-08-27
Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2024-04-05
Location: Illinois, US
Date: 2021-06-15
Stunted growth.
Photo by plantmanager
Photo by plantmanager
Location: Illinois, US
Date: 2021-06-15
Stunted growth.
Location: Butterfly garden
Date: 2012-06-11
Pipevine Swallowtail nectaring on Clammyweed flower.
Location: Fielder House Butterfly garden Arlington, Texas.
Date: Summer 2011
This lovely plant is very drought tolerant and attractive to bees
Location: Fielder House Butterfly garden Arlington, Texas.
Date: Summer 2011
This lovely plant is very drought tolerant and attractive to bees

Credit NPS

Credit NPS
Location: Fielder House Butterfly garden Arlington, Texas.
Date: Fall 2011
This lovely plant is very attractive to bees and butterflies.
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-10-04
Location: Fort Worth Nature Center.
Date: Spring 2010
Clammyweed growing wild at Fort Worth Nature Center.
Location: Fielder House Butterfly garden Arlington, Texas.
Date: Fall 2011
Seed pods of Clammyweed.
Location: Butterfly garden
Date: 2012-08-16
Seed Pods
Comments:
  • Posted by imabirdnut (North Texas - Zone 7b) on Aug 17, 2012 4:40 PM concerning plant:
    Clammyweed is a host plant for Florida White (Appias drusilla) & Great Southern White (Ascia monuste) butterflies & is a great nectar plant for swallowtails as well as other butterflies.
  • Posted by frostweed (Arlington, Texas - Zone 8a) on Sep 14, 2011 8:11 PM concerning plant:
    This plant went through many days of 100+ temperatures without wilting, I call this a heat and drought tolerant plant.
Plant Events from our members
MrsBinWY On April 28, 2019 Seeds germinated
9 (seeds from janinilulu)
MrsBinWY On December 23, 2018 Seeds sown
WS 16 seeds from janinilulu
MrsBinWY On January 20, 2018 Seeds sown
(Cleome marshallii) WS, 21 seeds (all) from Arcadiaseeker
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