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|accepted_name=Tradescantia occidentalis
|accepted_authority=(Britton) Smyth
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science
|place=16: 163. 1899
|year=1899
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Tradescantia virginiana var. occidentalis
|authority=Britton
|rank=variety
|publication_title=in N. L. Britton and A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S.
|publication_place=1: 377. 1896
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Tradescantia;Tradescantia occidentalis
|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 occidentalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|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>Stems</b> 5–90 cm; internodes glaucous, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> spirally arranged, sessile; blade linear-lanceolate, 5–50 × 0.2–3 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, glaucous, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, often axillary; bracts foliaceous. <b>Flowers</b> distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 0.8–3 cm, glandular-puberulent, rarely glabrous or glabrescent; sepals 4–11 mm, glandular-puberulent, usually with apical tuft of eglandular hairs, occasionally with scattered eglandular hairs among glandular, rarely glabrous or glabrescent; petals distinct, bright blue to rose or magenta, broadly ovate, not clawed, 6–16 mm; stamens free; filaments bearded. <b>Capsules</b> 4–7 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 2–4 mm.</span><!--

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|distribution=Man.;Ariz.;Ark.;Colo.;Iowa;Kans.;La.;Minn.;Mont.;N.Dak.;N.Mex.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wis.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>All of the chromosome counts cited by E. Anderson (1954) for this species are attributable to <i>Tradescantia occidentalis </i>var.<i> occidentalis</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
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==Key==
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|1
|Sepals and pedicels ± uniformly glandular-puberulent, rarely nearly glabrous
|[[Tradescantia occidentalis var. occidentalis|Tradescantia occidentalis var. occidentalis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Sepals and pedicels completely glabrous
|[[Tradescantia occidentalis var. scopulorum|Tradescantia occidentalis var. scopulorum]]
|}
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name=Tradescantia occidentalis
|authority=(Britton) Smyth
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Tradescantia virginiana var. occidentalis
|family=Commelinaceae
|distribution=Man.;Ariz.;Ark.;Colo.;Iowa;Kans.;La.;Minn.;Mont.;N.Dak.;N.Mex.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wis.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science
|publication year=1899
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Tradescantia
|species=Tradescantia occidentalis
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