Cleomella jonesii

Jones' bee plant

Family: Cleomaceae · Type: annual · Native

Jones' bee plant is a California native annual found in western Sonoran Desert regions on dry, sandy flats and weedy roadsides at elevations of 300 to 1,200 meters. Flowering in summer, this plant produces golden yellow flowers with 10 to 13 millimeter petals in elongated racemes. Growing to 50 to 100 centimeters tall with sparsely branched stems, it develops distinctive compound leaves with five linear to elliptic leaflets. Its leaves are arranged with five separate leaflets measuring 1.5 to 6 centimeters long, creating a delicate, spreading structure. The plant produces striking linear capsules 40 to 60 millimeters long with prominent yellow stamens extending 20 to 30 millimeters.

Habitat: Dry, sandy flats, desert scrub, weedy roadsides

Bloom period: Summer

Elevation: 300-1200 m

Bioregions: w DSon

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.