Tradescantia fluminensis |
Tradescantia longipes |
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small-leaf spiderwort, white-flower wandering jew |
wild crocus |
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Habit | Herbs, decumbent, rooting at nodes. | Herbs, usually ± rosette, erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. |
Roots | not brownish-tomentose. |
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Stems | unbranched or sparsely branched, 2–10 cm; internodes pilose or villous. |
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Leaves | 2-ranked; blade lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–5 × 1–2 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins ciliolate, apex acute, glabrous. |
spirally arranged, sessile; blade dull green, linear-lanceolate, 5–33 × 0.3–1.2 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins sparsely ciliate, apex acute to acuminate, pilose. |
Inflorescences | terminal, becoming leaf-opposed, sometimes axillary from distalmost leaf axil, 1–2 cyme pairs per stem; bracts mostly foliaceous, occasionally reduced. |
terminal; bracts foliaceous, ascending, pilose, margins sparsely ciliate. |
Flowers | distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 1–1.5 cm, glandular-pilose; sepals 5–7 mm, midrib pilose with eglandular hairs; petals distinct, white, not clawed, 8–9 mm; stamens free; filaments white, densely bearded with white hairs. |
distinctly pedicillate; pedicels (2–)4–6 cm, pilose with glandular or glandular and eglandular hairs; sepals suffused with pink to purple, 5–11 mm, pilose with glandular, eglandular hairs, glandular hairs numerous, conspicuous, longer hairs 1.5–6 mm; petals distinct, rose to blue or purplish, broadly ovate, not clawed, 8–16 mm; stamens free; filaments bearded. |
Capsules | 4–6 mm. |
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Seeds | 2–3 mm; hilum as long as seed. |
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2n | = 24. |
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Tradescantia fluminensis |
Tradescantia longipes |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | Flowering spring (Apr–May). |
Habitat | Woods, roadsides, and open areas, sometimes as weed | Wooded slopes on rocky hillsides |
Distribution |
AL; CA; FL; LA; native; South America (Brazil–Argentina); Africa (South Africa); Australia [Introduced in North America; introduced in North America]
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AR; MO
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Discussion | This species was recorded north to North Carolina (J. K. Small 1933), but I have not seen any supporting records from Georgia or North Carolina. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. |
Parent taxa | Commelinaceae > Tradescantia | Commelinaceae > Tradescantia |
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Name authority | Vellozo: Florae Fluminensis 140; plate vol. 3, 152. (1829) | E. S. Anderson & Woodson: Contr. Arnold Arbor. 9:91, plate 5, fig. 10; plate 6, fig. 9; plate 10;. (1935) |
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