Cleomaceae
Prickly spiderflower
Tarenaya aculeata
- Family
- Cleomaceae
- Genus
- Tarenaya
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Common names
By language (2)
- English
- Prickly spiderflower, Prickly spider flower
- Quechua
- Chawqa t'ika
Synonyms
- Cleome aculeata L.
- Cleome aculeata subsp. aculeata
- Cleome aculeata var. aculeata
- Cleome aculeata var. normalis Kuntze
- Cleome affinis DC.
- Cleome fugax Schrad.
- Cleome gilletii De Wild.
- Cleome hamiltoniana Miq.
- Cleome hullettii King
- Cleome malhadensis Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
- Cleome margaritae Buscal. & Muschl.
- Cleome potosina B.L.Rob.
- Cleome sinaloensis Brandegee
- Cleome surinamensis Miq.
- Hemiscola aculeata (L.) Raf.
Flowers
- In flower
- April (from 51 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.