Tradescantia zebrina |
Tradescantia ozarkana |
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inchplant, wandering-jew |
Ozark spiderwort |
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Habit | Herbs, decumbent. | Herbs, erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. |
Stems | not flexuous, 10–50 cm; internodes glabrous to pilose. |
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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 silvery or gray-green, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 8–28 × 1–6 cm (distal leaf blades wider than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base ± rounded to cuneate, apex acuminate, ± glaucous, usually glabrous. |
Inflorescences | terminal, consisting of pairs of sessile cymes enclosed in sheaths of spathaceous bracts, pedunculate; spathaceous bracts foliaceous, reduced. |
all or mostly terminal; 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 2–3.2 cm, glandular-pilosulose; sepals 6–12 mm, sparsely to densely glandular-pilosulose; petals distinct, white or pale pink to pale lavender, broadly ovate, not clawed, 1.2–1.6 cm; stamens free. |
Capsules | 3-locular; locules 2-seeded. |
6–8 mm. |
Seeds | 3–4 mm. |
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2n | = 12, 24. |
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Tradescantia zebrina |
Tradescantia ozarkana |
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Phenology | Flowering fall–winter (Sep–Feb). | Flowering spring (Apr–May). |
Habitat | Hummocks and weedy places | Rich woods, mainly on rocky slopes and along cliffs, occasionally in bottomlands |
Distribution |
FL; native; tropical America [Introduced in North America] |
AR; MO; OK
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Discussion | Tradescantia ozarkana is endemic to the Ozarks. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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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: 56, plate 12, map 3. (1935) |
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