Tradescantia zebrina |
Tradescantia crassula |
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inchplant, wandering-jew |
succulent spiderwort |
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Habit | Herbs, decumbent. | Herbs, decumbent, rooting at nodes. |
Leaves | 2-ranked; blade variegated, abaxially reddish purple, adaxially striped green and white, lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 3–9 × 1.5–3 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base oblique, cuneate, apex acute to acuminate. |
2-ranked; blade lanceolate-oblong to ovate-elliptic, 5–10 × 2–3.5 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins ciliolate, apex acute, glabrous. |
Inflorescences | terminal, consisting of pairs of sessile cymes enclosed in sheaths of spathaceous bracts, pedunculate; spathaceous bracts foliaceous, reduced. |
terminal and axillary from distal leaf axils, 2–4 cyme pairs per stem; bracts foliaceous or more commonly reduced (especially in axillary inflorescences). |
Flowers | subsessile; sepals basally connate, 4–5 mm; petals pink, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube; stamens epipetalous; filaments bearded. |
distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 1–2 cm, glandular-pilose especially toward apex; sepals 5–7 mm, midrib pilose with glandular and eglandular hairs; petals distinct, white, not clawed, 9 mm; stamens free; filaments white, densely bearded with white hairs. |
Capsules | 3-locular; locules 2-seeded. |
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Tradescantia zebrina |
Tradescantia crassula |
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Phenology | Flowering fall–winter (Sep–Feb). | Flowering spring (May). |
Habitat | Hummocks and weedy places | Under live oaks |
Distribution |
FL; native; tropical America [Introduced in North America] |
FL; South America [Introduced in North America] |
Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. |
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Synonyms | Zebrina pendula | |
Name authority | Hort ex Bosse: Vollstandiges Handb. Blumengart. 4: 655. (1849) | Link & Otto: Icon. Pl. Rar. 2: 13, plate 7. (1828) |
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