General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Leaves: Fragrant
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Birds
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Miscellaneous: With thorns/spines/prickles/teeth

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Common names
  • Spider Flower
  • Spider Legs
  • Grandfather's Whiskers
  • Cleome
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Tarenaya hassleriana
  • Synonym: Cleome hassleriana

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Location: Mentor on the Lake
Date: 2018-08-03
Location: Chicago
Date: 2020-06-23
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5
Date: July
Early Bloom

Date: 2011-06-24
Courtesy Outsidepride
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2018-08-17
Colorful Centerpiece 001
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2013-05-27
First true leaves
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2016-09-11
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2011-10-26

Courtesy of Diane's Flower Seeds
Uploaded by KarenHolt

 Photo Courtesy of Select Seeds. Used with permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 8-2010
My yard, zone 6
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2016-09-03
Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2019-09-13
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2013-05-16
Germinated after 6 days

Photo Courtesy of Select Seeds. Used with permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo Courtesy of Select Seeds. Used with permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 8-2010
My yard, zone 6
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 8-2010
My yard, zone 6
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 8-2010
My yard, zone 6
Comments:
  • Posted by DaylilySLP (Dearborn Hts, MI - Zone 6b) on Apr 20, 2019 5:10 PM concerning plant:
    I live in zone 6.
    When I grew these, they come back from seed the next spring.
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