| Scientific Name: | Cleome hassleriana |
| Common Name: | spider flower |
| Family Name: | Cleomaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Container planting, Fall interest, Filler, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Lustrous, Pubescent, Digitate (palmate), Elliptic, Ciliate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Purple, Pink, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Dark-red, Brown, Sep-Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves aromatic, sticky, palmate with 5-7 elliptic leaflets, most 4-9cm long x 2-4cm wide, spiny stipules; flowers spider-like with protruding stamens, in dense elongated terminal racemes of pink, purple or white, from summer to frost; fruits long and thin, pod-like capsules, green ripening to reddish-brown. | |