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|accepted_name=Tradescantia hirsutiflora
|accepted_authority=Bush
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|title=Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis
|place=14:184. 1904
|year=1904
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|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Tradescantia;Tradescantia hirsutiflora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Commelinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tradescantia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tradescantia hirsutiflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. <b>Roots</b> 1–1.5(–2) mm thick, scarcely fleshy. <b>Stems</b> unbranched or sparsely branched, 5–50 cm; internodes densely spreading, pilose or hirsute to glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> spirally arranged, sessile; blade linear-lanceolate, 10–32 × 0.6–2 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, usually pilose, occasionally glabrous or glabrescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, sometimes axillary; bracts foliaceous, well developed, not saccate, sparsely to densely pilose. <b>Flowers</b> distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 1–3 cm, usually pilose; sepals not inflated, 7–16 mm, usually uniformly eglandular-pilose, rarely a few inconspicuous glandular hairs present; petals distinct, bright blue to rose, rarely white, broadly ovate, not clawed, 12–19 mm; stamens free; filaments bearded. <b>Capsules</b> 5–7 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 2–3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 12, 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–Aug).
|habitat=Roadsides, fields, clearings, railroad rights-of-way, scrub, bottomlands, and pine or pine-mixed hardwood woods, usually in sandy soil
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;Okla.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Tradescantia hirsutiflora</i> was considered their most ill-defined species by E. Anderson and R. E. Woodson Jr. (1935). The difficulties in separating it from <i>T. virginiana</i> have been mentioned under that species. A specimen from Beaufort County, South Carolina appears to be a hybrid between <i>T. hirsutiflora</i> and <i>T. ohiensis</i>, but there is no record of <i>T. hirsutiflora</i> from the state. Some specimens from Highlands County, Florida will key to, and probably are, <i>T. hirsutiflora</i>. They represent a range disjunction from the Florida panhandle. Their relationships with the co-occurring <i>T. roseolens</i> are being investigated.</p><!--
--><p>This species commonly has been confused with <i>Tradescantia hirsuticaulis</i> (J. K. Small 1933; R. P. Wunderlin 1982), perhaps because of the similar name. They are not closely related.</p><!--
--><p>Specimens of <i>Tradescantia hirsutiflora</i> with glandular hairs on the sepals were not found by D. T. MacRoberts (1980b). In Texas plants with glandular hairs are frequent, and the glandular hairs may be numerous and conspicuous. These plants, which have been referred to <i>T. bracteata</i> by MacRoberts, need to be investigated further. I have also seen three sheets of <i>T. hirsutiflora</i> from Louisiana and one from Mississippi that have a few inconspicuous glandular hairs among the numerous longer, eglandular ones.</p><!--
--><p>The following hybrids are known: <i>Tradescantia hirsutiflora</i> × <i>T. occidentalis</i>, from Alabama, Louisiana; <i>T. hirsutiflora</i> × <i>T. ohiensis</i>, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina; <i>T. hirsutiflora</i> × <i>T. paludosa</i>, Arkansas, Louisiana; and <i>T. hirsutiflora</i> × <i>T. roseolens</i>, Florida.</p>
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|authority=Bush
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|family=Commelinaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–Aug).
|habitat=Roadsides, fields, clearings, railroad rights-of-way, scrub, bottomlands, and pine or pine-mixed hardwood woods, usually in sandy soil
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;Okla.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis
|publication year=1904
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|genus=Tradescantia
|species=Tradescantia hirsutiflora
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