Spiderwort
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common name for some members of the Commelinaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical succulent herbs found especially in Africa and the Americas.
Spiderwort
Vigorous perennials grown for their white, pink or blue flowers, each Spiderwort stalk holds many buds which each open only for one day. Flowers bloom all summer. Used as a ground cover, but can be invasive.
Spiderwort
This Spiderwort of Pennsylvania provenance is a great landscape plant for hot sunny locations, unlike others in the genus. Attractive bluish-grey foliage with flowers in blue, pink or purple from early June to September.
Blue Spiderwort
By Lou Paun
Blue Spiderwort (Commelina) - A charming old garden plant with flowers of a fine blue. C. Coelestis delights in light warm soils.
Hardy Spiderworts are found in humus-rich soils in prairies and open spots in woods in North America.
Spiderworts have nearly regular, bisexual flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals, usually with 2 broad petals and the third reduced in size. The petals range from blue to violet, pink, white or rose-colored, but never yellow.
Spiderwort flowers open in the morning, then wilt and turn to mush in the afternoon.
Brown Spiderwort, Bear Ears
Scientific Name: Siderasis fuscata (Lodd.) H. E. Moore
Synonym:
Family: Commelinaceae ...
Common Name: Spiderwort
Latin Name: Tradescantia ohiensis
Habitat: Forest edges, meadows, roadsides
Blooms: Summer ...
Medical Uses: The Cherokee used Spiderwort as an ingredient in several preparations for female and kidney problems. They used a tea for digestive problems and would rub crushed leaves on insect bites (stings). A root poultice was used for cancer.
View more information and pictures about small-leaf spiderwort, as contained in the Langeland/Burks book, Identification & Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas.
Spiderworts look great in rock gardens where they're long stems can cascade down the slope - here's the cultivar 'Red Cloud' handsomely at home in his hypertuffa planter.
Usage ...
Family: Spiderwort (Commelinaceae)
Flowering: September-October
Field Marks: This creeping annual has 3 pinkish petals alternating with 3 green sepals, 2 or 3 fertile stamens, 3 or 4 sterile stamens, and tubular leaf sheaths.
Tradescantia occidentalis (Spiderwort)
Commelinaceae (Spiderwort Family)
Semi-desert, foothills. Forest and grassland openings. Summer, fall.
Upper Calf Creek Trail, Escalante/Grand Staircase National Monument, Utah, October 23, 2007.
Spiderwort prefers light shade and even moisture throughout the growing season. Cultivars are usually hybrids of species native to North America, usually with Tradescantia virginiana as one parent.
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aneilima; Asian spiderwort; marsh dewflower; wart-removing herb Murdannia keisak
angle-stem beak sedge Rhynchospora caduca
Anil-de-Pasto; indigo Indigofera suffruticosa
annual bastard cabbage Rapistrum rugosum
annual bluegrass Poa annua ...
Spiderwort
Spiderwort Tradescantia virginiana
Spiketail
Early Spiketail Stachyurus praecox
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Common, European Euonymus, Euonymus europaeus
Spirea (Spiraea)
Anthony Waterer Spiraea japonica ‘Anthony Waterer' (syn. S.
In spiderwort (Tradescantia virginica) the hairs are beautifully coloured, moniliform or necklace-like, and afford good objects for studying rotation of the protoplasm.
I to have had my brown spiderwort for a number of years. I recieved it as a gift, and didn't have a clue of the species. But after finding out what it is exactly, I to have had no problems with mine blooming.
Commelina communis (Commelinaceae) -- This non-native plant is one of only a few truly blue flowers, and is related to spiderwort. It gets its name because the blooms last for only one day. It blooms in late summer to early fall.
robbs spurge (Euphorbia robbiae), wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens), dead nettle (Lamium maculatum), (both the native and asian mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum and emodi), lungworts (Pulmonaria sp.), foam flower (Tiarella cordifolia), spiderworts ...
Monarda species Bee Balm
Myosotis sylvatica Forget-me-not
Osmunda regalis Royal Fern *
Physostegia virginiana Obedient Plant
Primula species Primrose
Tradescantia virginiana Spiderwort
Zantedeschia aethiopeca Calla * ...
Spiderwort (Tradescantia species)
Spike speedwell, bird's-eye veronica (Veronica prostata, Veronica spicata, Veronica filiformis)
Spinach (Spinacia oleracea)
Spiny star, pincushion cactus (Coryphantha vivipara)
Spirea (Spiraea species) ...
 See also: Pink, Violet, Lily, Daylily, Iris
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