Tradescantia pallida |
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purple queen |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, succulent. |
Stems | suffused with purplish violet. |
Leaves | spirally arranged; blade not variegated, suffused with purplish violet, lanceolate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, (4–)7–15 × 1.5–3 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base symmetric, rounded to broadly cuneate, margins ciliate or ciliolate, apex acute, glabrous or glabrescent. |
Inflorescences | terminal, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate; peduncles (3.5–)4–13 cm; bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced. |
Flowers | subsessile; pedicels 4–9 mm, densely white-pilose at summit; sepals distinct, 7–10 mm, pilose basally; petals ± connate at base, pink, clawed, 1.5–2 cm; stamens epipetalous; filaments very sparsely bearded. |
Capsules | 3.5 mm, glabrous. |
Seeds | 2.5–3 mm. |
2n | = 24 (Mexico). |
Tradescantia pallida |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall. |
Habitat | Landfill and old home sites |
Distribution |
FL; LA; Mexico; native [Introduced in North America]
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Source | FNA vol. 22. |
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Synonyms | Setcreasea pallida, Setcreasea purpurea |
Name authority | (Rose) D. R. Hunt: Kew Bull. 30: 452. (1975) |
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