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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Peritoma lutea
|accepted_authority=(Hooker) Rafinesque
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sylva Tellur.,
|place=112. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|common_names=Yellow bee-plant
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cleome lutea
|authority=Hooker
|publication_title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication_place=1: 70, plate 25. 1830
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Peritoma breviflora
|authority=Wooton & Standley
}}
|hierarchy=Cleomaceae;Peritoma;Peritoma lutea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cleomaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Peritoma]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Peritoma lutea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 205, 207
|treatment_page=page 206
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> (15–)25–30 cm. <b>Stems</b> sparsely branched distally; glabrous or glabrate. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1.5–4.5 cm; leaflets 5 (proximal ones sometimes early deciduous), blade linear to elliptic, 1.5–4(–6) × 0.4–1.3 cm, margins serrate, apex long-acuminate, surfaces glabrous. <b>Racemes</b> 1–3 cm (6–40 cm in fruit); bracts unifoliate, spatulate, 2–15 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 7–15 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals persistent, connate ca. 1/2 of length, yellow, lanceolate, 1.6–2.6 × 0.8–1.2 mm, margins denticulate, glabrous; petals light yellow, oblong to ovate, 5–8 × 2–4 mm; stamens yellow, 10–15 mm; anthers 1.9–2.6 mm; gynophore 5–17 mm in fruit; ovary 3–6 mm; style 0.5–0.8 mm. <b>Capsules</b> not inflated, 15–40 × 2–5 mm, striate. <b>Seeds</b> 10–20, gray to black, triangular (sharply angled), 3–4 × 2.5–3 mm, rugose. <b>2n</b> = 34.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–late summer.
|habitat=Dry sandy flats, desert scrub, roadsides
|elevation=(100-)600-2400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Mexico (Baja California).
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Peritoma lutea
|author=
|authority=(Hooker) Rafinesque
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Peritoma breviflora
|basionyms=Cleome lutea
|family=Cleomaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–late summer.
|habitat=Dry sandy flats, desert scrub, roadsides
|elevation=(100-)600-2400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Sylva Tellur.,
|publication year=1838
|special status=
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|genus=Peritoma
|species=Peritoma lutea
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