Flora of North America species comparison

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Tradescantia longipes

wild crocus
Habit Herbs, usually ± rosette, erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes.
Roots

not brownish-tomentose.
Stems

unbranched or sparsely branched, 2–10 cm;

internodes pilose or villous.
Leaves

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;

bracts foliaceous, ascending, pilose, margins sparsely ciliate.
Flowers

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.
Seeds

2–3 mm;

hilum as long as seed.
2n

= 24.

Tradescantia longipes
Phenology Flowering spring (Apr–May).
Habitat Wooded slopes on rocky hillsides
Distribution
from FNA
AR; MO
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Source FNA vol. 22.
Parent taxa Commelinaceae > Tradescantia
Sibling taxa
T. bracteata, T. brevifolia, T. buckleyi, T. crassifolia, T. crassula, T. edwardsiana, T. ernestiana, T. fluminensis, T. gigantea, T. hirsuticaulis, T. hirsutiflora, T. humilis, T. leiandra, T. occidentalis, T. ohiensis, T. ozarkana, T. pallida, T. paludosa, T. pedicellata, T. pinetorum, T. reverchonii, T. roseolens, T. spathacea, T. subacaulis, T. subaspera, T. tharpii, T. virginiana, T. wrightii, T. zebrina
Name authority E. S. Anderson & Woodson: Contr. Arnold Arbor. 9:91, plate 5, fig. 10; plate 6, fig. 9; plate 10;. (1935)
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