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Ozark spiderwort

Habit Herbs, erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes.
Stems

not flexuous, 10–50 cm;

internodes glabrous to pilose.

Leaves

spirally arranged, sessile;

blade silvery or gray-green, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 8–28 × 1–6 cm (distal leaf blades wider than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base ± rounded to cuneate, apex acuminate, ± glaucous, usually glabrous.

Inflorescences

all or mostly terminal;

bracts foliaceous.

Flowers

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels 2–3.2 cm, glandular-pilosulose;

sepals 6–12 mm, sparsely to densely glandular-pilosulose;

petals distinct, white or pale pink to pale lavender, broadly ovate, not clawed, 1.2–1.6 cm;

stamens free.

Capsules

6–8 mm.

Seeds

3–4 mm.

2n

= 12, 24.

Tradescantia ozarkana

Phenology Flowering spring (Apr–May).
Habitat Rich woods, mainly on rocky slopes and along cliffs, occasionally in bottomlands
Distribution
from FNA
AR; MO; OK
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Discussion

Tradescantia ozarkana is endemic to the Ozarks.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

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. longipes, T. occidentalis, T. ohiensis, 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: 56, plate 12, map 3. (1935)
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