View source for Tradescantia paludosa

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|accepted_name=Tradescantia paludosa
|accepted_authority=E. S. Anderson & Woodson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. Arnold Arbor.
|place=9: 83; plate 2, fig. 4; plate 4, fig. 6; plate 11;. 1935
|year=1935
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tradescantia ohiensis var. paludosa
|authority=(E. S. Anderson & Woodson) MacRoberts
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Tradescantia;Tradescantia paludosa
|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 paludosa]]</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, ascending, or occasionally decumbent, rarely rooting at nodes. <b>Stems</b> often much branched distally, 15–60 cm; internodes not at all to slightly glaucous, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> spirally arranged, sessile, forming nearly right angle with stem, straight; blade narrowly oblong-elliptic to linear-lanceolate, 4–11(–20) × 0.4–1.2 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base often constricted, apex acuminate, not at all to slightly glaucous, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, often axillary; bracts foliaceous. <b>Flowers</b> distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 0.8–1.5 cm, glabrous; sepals 0.6–0.8 mm, glabrous or with apical tuft of eglandular hairs; petals distinct, pale blue, ovate, not clawed, 1.3–1.5 cm; stamens free; filaments bearded. <b>Capsules</b> 2–5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 2–3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–May), sporadically to early fall.
|habitat=Alluvial bottoms and swamps, forests, roadsides, railroad rights-of-way, fields, ditches, and lawns
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;La.;Miss.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Tradescantia paludosa</i> is clearly Anderson and Woodson's weakest species, and D. T. MacRoberts (1979) may be correct in treating it as a variety of Trandescantia ohiensis. In view of its importance as a research tool, however, I prefer to maintain <i>T. paludosa</i> as a species until a more rigorous analysis of its variation is published. Plants of this species do not seem to require a winter dormancy, hence they can be cultivated in greenhouses year-round.</p>
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name=Tradescantia paludosa
|authority=E. S. Anderson & Woodson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Tradescantia ohiensis var. paludosa
|basionyms=
|family=Commelinaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–May), sporadically to early fall.
|habitat=Alluvial bottoms and swamps, forests, roadsides, railroad rights-of-way, fields, ditches, and lawns
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;La.;Miss.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. Arnold Arbor.
|publication year=1935
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Tradescantia
|species=Tradescantia paludosa
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