CAPPARIDACEAE (CAPER FAMILY) 199 
An unpleasant weed, with fetid odor and 
acrid juices, the whole plant glandular and 
clammy-hairy, even to its pods. Stem six 
inches to two feet tall, with slender as- 
cending branches. Leaves alternate, dark 
green, with three oblong leaflets, tapering 
to each end, on slender petioles about as 
long as the central blade. Flowers in the 
upper axils, forming long, leafy, terminal 
racemes; corolla of four yellowish white or 
pinkish petals, notched at the outer edge, 
with a tassel of many unequal pinkish 
purple stamens in the center: four purplish 
pointed sepals, soon falling away. Capsule 
one to nearly two inches long, erect on 
spreading pedicels, one-celled, thin, rough, 
net-veined, crammed with rough, brown 
seeds. (Fig. 141.) . Fig. 141. — Clammy- 
weed (Polanisia graveo- 
lans). xX. 
Means of control 
Close cutting or pulling before the formation of seed. 
PINK CLEOME x 
Cleéme serrulata, Pursh. 
Other English names: Rocky Mountain Bee-plant, Stinking Clover, 
Stinkweed. 
Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: July to September. 
Seed-time: Late August to November. 
Range: Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri, westward to the Rocky 
Mountains, New Mexico, and Arizona; also in Manitoba and 
the Northwest Territory. 
Habitat: Dry upland prairies and hillsides, waste places. 
The foliage of this plant has a very unpleasant odor, which causes 
it to be rejected by grazing cattle; but the blossoms yield much 
nectar, which the bees turn into clear honey of fine flavor; there- 
fore bee keepers are its friends, for it blooms at a time when bee- 
pasture is not so very plentiful. 
