About Cleomella obtusifolia Torr. & Frém.
Cleomella obtusifolia is a species of flowering plant belonging to the cleome family. Its common names are Mojave stinkweed, bluntleaf stinkweed, and Mojave Cleomella. This plant grows on alkaline soils in desert scrub habitats. It is an annual herb that produces a rough, hairy stem. When new, the branching stem grows upright, but as it ages, the branches droop toward the ground, forming a bushy clump or mat. Each leaf is composed of three fleshy, oval-shaped leaflets. Flowers grow in dense racemes on older stems, and grow singly in the leaf axils of new stems. Each flower typically has four hairy green sepals and four yellow petals, grouped together on one side of the involucre. Whiskery yellow stamens protrude up to 1.5 centimeters out from the flower. The fruit is a hairy, valved capsule only a few millimeters long, which hangs from the tip of the remaining flower receptacle.
