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Succulent Spiderworts

Setcreasea

Tradescantia (/ˌtrædəˈskæntiə/) is a genus of 85 species of herbaceous perennial wildflowers in the family Commelinaceae, native to the Americas from southern Canada to northern Argentina, including the West Indies. Members of the genus are known by many common names, including inchplant, wandering jew, spiderwort, dayflower and trad.

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10 branches of this group, most-observed first

Purple Heart

speciesTradescantia pallida

Wooly Spiderwort

speciesTradescantia sillamontana

Trans-Pecos Spiderwort

speciesTradescantia brevifolia

Buckley's Spiderwort

speciesTradescantia buckleyi

Tradescantia hirta

speciesTradescantia hirta

Tradescantia pygmaea

speciesTradescantia pygmaea

Tradescantia orchidophylla

speciesTradescantia orchidophylla

Tradescantia rozynskii

speciesTradescantia rozynskii

Canyon Spiderwort

speciesTradescantia leiandra

Tradescantia mirandae

speciesTradescantia mirandae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1374156.