Tradescantia zebrina |
Tradescantia pinetorum |
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inchplant, wandering-jew |
pinewoods spiderwort |
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Habit | Herbs, decumbent. | Herbs, erect to ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. |
Roots | sometimes tuberous. |
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Stems | sparsely branched, 8–39 cm, scabridulous or rarely 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. |
blade linear-lanceolate, 1–10 × 0.15–0.8 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), firmly membranaceous, glaucous, glabrous. |
Inflorescences | terminal, consisting of pairs of sessile cymes enclosed in sheaths of spathaceous bracts, pedunculate; spathaceous bracts foliaceous, reduced. |
terminal, solitary, or frequently with 1–3 axillary inflorescences 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 0.8–1 cm, glandular-puberulent; sepals frequently suffused with red, glaucous, 4–6 mm, glandular-puberulent; petals distinct, bright blue to rose and purple, not clawed, 9–12 mm; stamens free; filaments bearded. |
Capsules | 3-locular; locules 2-seeded. |
3–4 mm. |
Seeds | 1.5–2 mm; hilum much shorter than seed. |
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Tradescantia zebrina |
Tradescantia pinetorum |
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Phenology | Flowering fall–winter (Sep–Feb). | Flowering summer–fall (Jul–Sep). |
Habitat | Hummocks and weedy places | Moist canyons and stream banks |
Elevation | 1700–3000 m [5600–9800 ft] | |
Distribution |
FL; native; tropical America [Introduced in North America] |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora)
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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) | Greene: Erythea 1: 247. (1893) |
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