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Taxon:
Tradescantia virginiana
L.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Tradescantia
Family:
Commelinaceae
Subfamily:
Commelinoideae
Tribe:
Tradescantieae
Subtribe:
Tradescantiinae
Nomen number:
36812
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:288. 1753
Comment:
[horticultural hybrids involving this species are included here]
Typification:
View in Linnean Typification Project
Verified:
01/26/2009
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Tradescantia andersoniana
W. Ludw. & Rohweder, nom. inval.
No images
Reference(s)
Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009
Note:
based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
http://www.skud.info
Angelo, R. & D. E. Boufford.
Atlas of the flora of New England (on-line resource).
http://neatlas.huh.harvard.edu/index.html
Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr.
Flora of Java. 1963-1968
Botanical Society of the British Isles.
BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/BSBI/taxonsearch.php
Chester, E. W. et al.
Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants. 1993-1997
Erhardt, W. et al.
Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
Faden, R. B.
2000. Commelinaceae. Flora of North America. 1993- 22:174, 179-180.
http://floranorthamerica.org/
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Note:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Tradescantia+virginiana&quantity=1
Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist.
Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. 1991
Huxley, A., ed.
The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
Hortus third. 1976
Radford, A. E. et al.
Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. 1964
Townsend, J., ed.
South Carolina plant atlas (on-line resource).
http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/herb
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
Flora europaea. 1964-1980
Walters, S. M. et al., eds.
European garden flora. 1986-
Wetter, M. A. et al.
WISFLORA: Wisconsin vascular plant species (on-line resource).
http://www.botany.wisc.edu/wisflora/
Wherry, E. T. et al.
Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania. 1979
http://www.upenn.edu/paflora/dbsearch.html
Yatskievych, G.
Steyermark's Flora of Missouri, revised edition. 1999-
Common names
English
spiderwort –
Reference(s)
Virginia spiderwort –
Reference(s)
white spiderwort –
Reference(s)
widow's-tears –
Reference(s)
French
éphémère de Virginie –
Reference(s)
German
Garten-Dreimasterblume –
Reference(s)
virginische Dreimasterblume –
Reference(s)
Swedish
ängstremastarblomma –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
order_code
Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Northern America
Eastern Canada
Canada
Ontario
s.
1
Native
Northern America
North-Central U.S.A.
United States
Illinois
1
Native
Northern America
North-Central U.S.A.
United States
Iowa
1
Native
Northern America
North-Central U.S.A.
United States
Missouri
1
Native
Northern America
North-Central U.S.A.
United States
Oklahoma
1
Native
Northern America
North-Central U.S.A.
United States
Wisconsin
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
Connecticut
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
Indiana
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
Maine
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
Massachusetts
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
Michigan
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
New Hampshire
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
New Jersey
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
New York
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
Ohio
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
Pennsylvania
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
Rhode Island
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
Vermont
1
Native
Northern America
Northeastern U.S.A.
United States
West Virginia
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Alabama
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Arkansas
n.w.?
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Delaware
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
District of Columbia
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Georgia
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Kentucky
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Maryland
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Mississippi
n.?
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
North Carolina
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
South Carolina
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Tennessee
http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/database/vascular-database.asp?CategoryID=Monocots&FamilyID=Commelinaceae&GenusID=Tradescantia&SpeciesID=virginiana
1
Native
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
United States
Virginia
2
Cultivated
also cult.
4
Naturalized
possibly natzd. from cult. in n. part of range
Native
Northern America
EASTERN CANADA:
Canada
[Ontario (s.)]
NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.:
United States
[Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin]
NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States
[Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia]
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States
[Alabama, Arkansas (n.w.?), Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi (n.?), North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/database/vascular-database.asp?CategoryID=Monocots&FamilyID=Commelinaceae&GenusID=Tradescantia&SpeciesID=virginiana), Virginia, District of Columbia]
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Naturalized
(possibly natzd. from cult. in n. part of range)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Name
References
Economic Uses