cleome
IPA: kɫiʌm
noun
- (botany) Any flowering plant in the genus Cleome.
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Examples of "cleome" in Sentences
- Besides these I have hosta, sedum, anemone, cleome and herbs.
- Use phlox 'David' to the back of the border in tandem with WHITE cleome 'Sparkler.'
- Annuals flowers like cleome, cosmos, zinnias and sunflowers are excellent bee attractors.
- Yonder the orange predominates in the showy flowers of the asclepia; and beyond, the eye roams over the pink blossoms of the cleome.
- They may be half-empty packets that didn't get used the previous year, or they may be seeds you collected from your non-hybrid plants such as cleome (spider flower).
- Examples that will do well in the Washington area are black-eyed Susans, purple coneflowers, butterfly weeds, goldenrods, coreopsis, wild and sulphur cosmos, gaillardias and cleome.
- This spring I sowed a different clutch of annuals: Ammi visnaga, with beautiful pale-green domes of flower, green-flowered tobacco plants, English marigolds, a white-flowered cleome called 'Helen Campbell'.
- Under my window a colony of cleome made a soft web of bloom that drew me every morning for a long still time; and one day I discovered that I was looking into a rare fretwork of fawn and straw colored twigs from which both bloom and leaf had gone, and I could not say if it had been for a matter of weeks or days.
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