Tradescantia zebrina |
Tradescantia edwardsiana |
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inchplant, wandering-jew |
plateau spiderwort |
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Habit | Herbs, decumbent. | Herbs, erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. |
Stems | not flexuous, 25–70 cm, densely puberulent to glabrescent. |
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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. |
gradually narrowed into sheath; blade light green, elliptic-lanceolate, 7–39 × 1.5–4.5 cm (distal leaf blades wider than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), minutely puberulent to glabrescent. |
Inflorescences | terminal, consisting of pairs of sessile cymes enclosed in sheaths of spathaceous bracts, pedunculate; spathaceous bracts foliaceous, reduced. |
terminal, usually also axillary from distal nodes; bracts foliaceous. |
Flowers | subsessile; sepals basally connate, 4–5 mm; petals pink, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube; stamens epipetalous; filaments bearded. |
distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 1.5–3 cm, densely puberulent; sepals green, 6–9 mm, glandular-puberulent or mixed glandular- and eglandular-puberulent; petals distinct, white to pale mauve, rarely bright pink, broadly ovate, not clawed, 1–1.2 cm; stamens free; filaments bearded. |
Capsules | 3-locular; locules 2-seeded. |
8–10 mm. |
Seeds | 3–4 mm. |
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2n | = 12. |
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Tradescantia zebrina |
Tradescantia edwardsiana |
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Phenology | Flowering fall–winter (Sep–Feb). | Flowering late winter–spring (Feb–May). |
Habitat | Hummocks and weedy places | Rich woods, and along moist terraces and ravines |
Distribution |
FL; native; tropical America [Introduced in North America] |
TX |
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) | Tharp: Rhodora 34: 57, fig. 1. (1932) |
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