Tradescantia ozarkana |
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Ozark spiderwort |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (Apr–May). |
Habitat | Rich woods, mainly on rocky slopes and along cliffs, occasionally in bottomlands |
Distribution |
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 | |
Name authority | E. S. Anderson & Woodson: Contr. Arnold Arbor. 9: 56, plate 12, map 3. (1935) |
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