Cleomella longipes, the Chiricahua Mountain stinkweed, is a plant species native to northern Mexico and to the southwestern United States. It has been reported from Chihuahua, San Luis Potosí, trans-Pecos Texas, New Mexico (Grant and Hidalgo Counties) Arizona (Cochise County). It is found on saline or alkaline flats at elevations of 500–1000 m.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Chiricahua Mountain stinkweed being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Cleomella palmeri
- Cleomella plocasperma
- Cleomella lutea
- Cleomella hillmanii
- Cleomella angustifolia
- Cleomella refracta
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Brassicales
- Family
- Cleomaceae
- Genus
- Cleomella
- Species
- Cleomella longipes
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