[The Caper Family East of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington]

Hillman's Stinkweed, Hillman's Cleomella

Cleomella hillmanii var. hillmanii

Synonym: Cleomella macbrideana

The photos shown on this page were taken at Willow Creek, near the Trout Creek Mountains in southeastern Oregon.........June 28, 1997.

Characteristics:

Cleomella is an erect, glabrtous, simple to freely branched annual from 5 to 40 cm tall.

The leaves are compound ternate (3 ovate-oblong leaflets) with long petioles.

The flowers have 4 sepals and 4 petals. The petals are pale to orange-yellow, and the flowers are fragrant. The seed capsules are broadly deltoid-obovate, from 6 to 9 mm long.

Habitat:

Cleomella is found in dry, dusty soils from the valleys into the foothills.

Range:

Cleomella is found from Lemhi County, Idaho south to Nevada, and west to eastern Malheur County, Oregon.

Paul Slichter