African Spiderflower

(Cleome gynandra)

Characteristics

Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect, warm-season annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from weak taproot

Leaf anatomy: Alternate, attenuate, palmately compound w/3-5 leaflets, leaflets obovate/oval-elliptic/ovate, finely toothed

Reproduction: Arranged in open raceme, 4 pink/lavender/white petals 

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}