1. Perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome
   "Desert plume thrives in the harsh conditions of the American Southwest";
   - prince's-plume, Stanleya pinnata, Cleome pinnata

Derived forms: desert plumes

Type of: subshrub, suffrutex

Part of: genus Stanleya, Stanleya