Tradescantia zebrina |
Tradescantia longipes |
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inchplant, wandering-jew |
wild crocus |
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Habit | Herbs, decumbent. | Herbs, usually ± rosette, erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. |
Roots | not brownish-tomentose. |
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Stems | unbranched or sparsely branched, 2–10 cm; internodes pilose or villous. |
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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. |
spirally arranged, sessile; blade dull green, linear-lanceolate, 5–33 × 0.3–1.2 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins sparsely ciliate, apex acute to acuminate, pilose. |
Inflorescences | terminal, consisting of pairs of sessile cymes enclosed in sheaths of spathaceous bracts, pedunculate; spathaceous bracts foliaceous, reduced. |
terminal; bracts foliaceous, ascending, pilose, margins sparsely ciliate. |
Flowers | subsessile; sepals basally connate, 4–5 mm; petals pink, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube; stamens epipetalous; filaments bearded. |
distinctly pedicillate; pedicels (2–)4–6 cm, pilose with glandular or glandular and eglandular hairs; sepals suffused with pink to purple, 5–11 mm, pilose with glandular, eglandular hairs, glandular hairs numerous, conspicuous, longer hairs 1.5–6 mm; petals distinct, rose to blue or purplish, broadly ovate, not clawed, 8–16 mm; stamens free; filaments bearded. |
Capsules | 3-locular; locules 2-seeded. |
4–6 mm. |
Seeds | 2–3 mm; hilum as long as seed. |
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2n | = 24. |
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Tradescantia zebrina |
Tradescantia longipes |
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Phenology | Flowering fall–winter (Sep–Feb). | Flowering spring (Apr–May). |
Habitat | Hummocks and weedy places | Wooded slopes on rocky hillsides |
Distribution |
FL; native; tropical America [Introduced in North America] |
AR; MO
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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) | E. S. Anderson & Woodson: Contr. Arnold Arbor. 9:91, plate 5, fig. 10; plate 6, fig. 9; plate 10;. (1935) |
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