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|accepted_name=Tradescantia ernestiana
|accepted_authority=E. S. Anderson & Woodson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. Arnold Arbor.
|place=9: 58, plate 8, map 4. 1935
|year=1935
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Tradescantia;Tradescantia ernestiana
|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 ernestiana]]</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–)1.5–5 mm thick, fleshy. <b>Stems</b> not flexuous, 5–40 cm; internodes usually glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> spirally arranged, sessile; blade dull green, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, 9–27 × 1–4 cm (distal leaf blades wider than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base cuneate to rounded, apex acuminate, not glaucous, glabrous or sparsely puberulent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal; bracts foliaceous. <b>Flowers</b> distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 2–3.2 cm, minutely pilose; sepals somewhat inflated, 9–16 mm, uniformly eglandular-pilose; petals distinct, deep blue, purple, or rose-red, broadly ovate, not clawed, 1.2–1.5 cm; stamens free; filaments bearded. <b>Capsules</b> 5–7 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 2–3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–May).
|habitat=Wooded hillsides, ledges and bluffs, occasionally along streams or in pastures
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Mo.;Okla.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Tradescantia ernestiana</i> is sympatric with, and easily confused with, <i>T. virginiana</i> in northern Alabama and perhaps northern Georgia [reported from Georgia by C. Sinclair (1967, p. 87), but no specimens are cited and I have seen none]. At present, the two species can be separated only by the relative width of the blade and sheath of the distal leaves. They are obviously closely related and should be studied in the field in the southern Appalachians where their ranges overlap. The Texas record is taken from C. Sinclair (1967).</p><!--
--><p>The hybrid <i>Tradescantia</i> ernestinana × <i>T. ozarkana</i> is known from Arkansas and Missouri.</p>
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name=Tradescantia ernestiana
|authority=E. S. Anderson & Woodson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Commelinaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–May).
|habitat=Wooded hillsides, ledges and bluffs, occasionally along streams or in pastures
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Mo.;Okla.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. Arnold Arbor.
|publication year=1935
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Tradescantia
|species=Tradescantia ernestiana
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