Tradescantia longipes |
Tradescantia buckleyi |
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wild crocus |
Buckley's spiderwort |
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Habit | Herbs, usually ± rosette, erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. | |
Roots | not brownish-tomentose. |
tuberous, tufted. |
Stems | unbranched or sparsely branched, 2–10 cm; internodes pilose or villous. |
loosely branched, to 50 cm, glabrous. |
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. |
spirally arranged; blade not variegated, elliptic, to 12 × 3.5 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), succulent, base symmetric, rounded to broadly cuneate, margins ciliolate, apex acute, glabrous. |
Inflorescences | terminal; bracts foliaceous, ascending, pilose, margins sparsely ciliate. |
terminal, pedunculate; peduncles 3–5.5 cm; bracts similar to leaves but somewhat smaller. |
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. |
subsessile; pedicels 0.7–0.8 cm, glabrous except for long silky hairs at summit; sepals distinct, base densely pilose, other surfaces sparsely pilose; petals ovate, clawed, 1 cm, claws basally connate forming tube, limb pale pink or whitish; stamens epipetalous; filaments bearded, antipetalous filament epipetalous, connective orange, broad; ovary densely bearded. |
Capsules | 4–6 mm. |
subglobose, 3.5 mm diam., pubescent. |
Seeds | 2–3 mm; hilum as long as seed. |
2–3 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
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Tradescantia longipes |
Tradescantia buckleyi |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (Apr–May). | Flowering mainly late winter–spring (Feb–May). |
Habitat | Wooded slopes on rocky hillsides | Clay mounds in chaparral |
Distribution |
AR; MO
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TX; Mexico (Tamaulipas) |
Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. |
Parent taxa | Commelinaceae > Tradescantia | Commelinaceae > Tradescantia |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Setcreasea buckleyi | |
Name authority | E. S. Anderson & Woodson: Contr. Arnold Arbor. 9:91, plate 5, fig. 10; plate 6, fig. 9; plate 10;. (1935) | (I. M. Johnston) D. R. Hunt: Kew Bull. 30: 451. (1975) |
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