Tradescantia occidentalis |
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prairie spiderwort, spiderwort |
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Habit | Herbs, erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. | ||||
Stems | 5–90 cm; internodes glaucous, glabrous. |
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Leaves | spirally arranged, sessile; blade linear-lanceolate, 5–50 × 0.2–3 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, glaucous, glabrous. |
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Inflorescences | terminal, often axillary; bracts foliaceous. |
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Flowers | distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 0.8–3 cm, glandular-puberulent, rarely glabrous or glabrescent; sepals 4–11 mm, glandular-puberulent, usually with apical tuft of eglandular hairs, occasionally with scattered eglandular hairs among glandular, rarely glabrous or glabrescent; petals distinct, bright blue to rose or magenta, broadly ovate, not clawed, 6–16 mm; stamens free; filaments bearded. |
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Capsules | 4–7 mm. |
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Seeds | 2–4 mm. |
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Tradescantia occidentalis |
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Distribution |
AR; AZ; CO; IA; KS; LA; MN; MT; ND; NE; NM; OK; SD; TX; UT; WI; WY; MB
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Discussion | All of the chromosome counts cited by E. Anderson (1954) for this species are attributable to Tradescantia occidentalis var. occidentalis. Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 22. | ||||
Parent taxa | Commelinaceae > Tradescantia | ||||
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Synonyms | T. virginiana var. occidentalis | ||||
Name authority | (Britton) Smyth: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 16: 163. (1899) | ||||
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