Tradescantia roseolens |
Tradescantia pallida |
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longleaf spiderwort |
purple queen |
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Habit | Herbs, erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. | Herbs, perennial, succulent. |
Roots | thin, fibrous, 0.5–1(–2) mm thick. |
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Stems | unbranched or sparsely branched, 19–60 cm; internodes puberulent with glandular or eglandular hairs, rarely pilose or glabrous. |
suffused with purplish violet. |
Leaves | spirally arranged, sessile; blade linear-lanceolate, 10–42 × 0.5–1.6 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, somewhat glaucous, puberulent to pilosulose, rarely glabrescent. |
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 axillary; bracts foliaceous. |
terminal, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate; peduncles (3.5–)4–13 cm; bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced. |
Flowers | rose-scented, distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 1–2.8 cm, glandular-puberulent; sepals 6–12 mm, glandular-puberulent, glandular hairs numerous and conspicuous, often mixed with eglandular hairs, usually with apical tuft of eglandular hairs, all hairs less than 1mm; petals distinct, broadly deep blue to magenta, ovate, not clawed, 10–14 mm; stamens free; filaments bearded. |
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 | 5–7 mm. |
3.5 mm, glabrous. |
Seeds | 3–4 mm. |
2.5–3 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24 (Mexico). |
Tradescantia roseolens |
Tradescantia pallida |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–summer (Feb–Aug). | Flowering summer–fall. |
Habitat | Oak and oak-palmetto scrub, oak woods, pine woods, hammocks, sandhills, roadsides, and open areas, sandy soil | Landfill and old home sites |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; SC
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FL; LA; Mexico; native [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion | Although E. Anderson and R. E. Woodson Jr. (1935) do not report eglandular hairs on the sepals in Tradescantia roseolens, they are present in nearly all specimens. While some eglandular hairs might be the result of hybridization, in general they seem to be part of the normal variation in this species. The illegitimate name Tradescantia longifolia Small (a later homonym of T. longifolia Sessé and Mociño 1894) has been used for this species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. |
Parent taxa | Commelinaceae > Tradescantia | Commelinaceae > Tradescantia |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Setcreasea pallida, Setcreasea purpurea | |
Name authority | Small: Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 51:379. (1924) | (Rose) D. R. Hunt: Kew Bull. 30: 452. (1975) |
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