Tradescantia virginiana
Habit | herbaceous
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Height: | ⇕ | 12 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12. to 20 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20. |
Width: | ⇔ | 20 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20. to 48 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 48. |
Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
Bloom: | ❀ | early summer, mid summer, late summer |
Exposure: | ☼ | part-sun |
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Features: | ✓ | flowers |
USDA Zones: | 7 to 10 | |
Flower features: | ❀ | red, blue, purple, pink |
Tradescantia virginiana (Virginia spiderwort) is a species of Tradescantia (spiderwort) native to the eastern United States. Spiderwort is commonly grown in gardens and many garden spiderworts seem to be hybrids of T. virginiana and other Tradescantia species.[1]
Tradescantia virginiana is a herbaceous plant with alternate, simple leaves, on tubular stems. The flowers are blue, purple, or white, borne in summer.
Read about Tradescantia virginiana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Tradescantia virginiana, Linn.; also spelled virginica (T. montana, Shuttlw., not Heyne. T. tumida, Lindl.). Common Spiderwort. Erect, branching, 1-3 ft., glabrous or nearly so: lvs. conduplicate, very long linear-lanceolate (6-15 in. long), clasping: umbels several-fld., terminal, the pedicel recurving when not in bloom: fls. violet-blue, in various shades, 1-2 in. across, produced freely nearly all summer: sepals villous. N. Y. to S. D., Va., and Ark.—An exceedingly variable plant.
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Cultivation
Tradescantia virginiana is a perennial forb/herb. It likes most moist soils but can adapt to drier garden soils. Plants may be propagated from seed but they are more easily started from cuttings or divisions.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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