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|accepted_name=Tradescantia humilis
|accepted_authority=Rose
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium
|place=5: 204. 1899
|year=1899
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Tradescantia;Tradescantia humilis
|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 humilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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|treatment_page=
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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> tuberous in part, not brownish-tomentose. <b>Stems</b> spreading, diffusely branched, particularly at base, 0.5–20(–45) cm, densely pubescent to glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> somewhat recurved or falcate; blade deep green, or paler and somewhat glaucous, linear-lanceolate, 11–20 × 1–2 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins usually tinged with purple, crisped, puberulent to glabrescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, solitary, or more frequently also axillary and pedunculate from distal nodes; bracts foliaceous, similar to leaves in form, puberulent to glabrescent. <b>Flowers</b> distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 1.5–2.5 cm, puberulent or pilose with mixed glandular, eglandular hairs; sepals dull green or occasionally edged or suffused with purple, 9–11 mm, pubescent with mixed glandular, eglandular hairs; petals distinct, bright blue or occasionally pink, broadly ovate, not clawed, 11–19 mm; stamens free; filaments bearded. <b>Capsules</b> 6–7 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 2–3 mm; hilum as long as seed. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–Jun).
|habitat=Sandy and rocky soil, formerly also in rich black soil at the edge of the coastal plain, now more commonly in disturbed sites, such as roadsides, fencerows, and railroad rights-of-way
|distribution=Tex.
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name=Tradescantia humilis
|author=
|authority=Rose
|rank=species
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|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Commelinaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–Jun).
|habitat=Sandy and rocky soil, formerly also in rich black soil at the edge of the coastal plain, now more commonly in disturbed sites, such as roadsides, fencerows, and railroad rights-of-way
|distribution=Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium
|publication year=1899
|special status=
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|genus=Tradescantia
|species=Tradescantia humilis
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