Cleome oxalidea

Cleome oxalidea is a species of plant in the Cleomaceae family and is found in Western Australia.^[1]

Cleome oxalidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Cleomaceae
Genus:	Cleome
Species:	C. oxalidea
Binomial name
Cleome oxalidea F.Muell.

The annual or ephemeral herb has a rosetted habit and typically grows to a height of 5 to 30 centimetres (2.0 to 11.8 in). It blooms between January and September producing blue-pink-purple flowers.

It is found in the Kimberley, Pilbara, Goldfields-Esperance and Mid West regions of Western Australia growing in stony sandy-loam alluvium.^[1]

The species uses C₄ photosynthesis. The C₄ pathway in this species evolved independently from the two other C₄ Cleome species, C. angustifolia and C. gynandra.^[2]