Taxon: Tradescantia virginiana L.

Common names:

• spiderwort   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Virginia spiderwort   (Source: Glea Cron ed2 ) – English
  
• white spiderwort   (Source: Zander Ency [as T. ×andersoniana]) – English
  
• widow's-tears   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• éphémère de Virginie   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• Garten-Dreimasterblume   (Source: Zander Ency [as T. ×andersoniana]) – German
  
• virginische Dreimasterblume   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• ängstremastarblomma   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Gene sources: ornamental features   (fide Eur Gard F)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas [n.w.?], Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi [n.?], North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

• possibly naturalized from cultivated in n. part of range

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Angelo, R. & D. E. Boufford. Atlas of the flora of New England (on-line resource).
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Faden, R. B. 2000. Commelinaceae. In: FNA Editorial Committee, Flora of North America. 22:174, 179–180.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Townsend, J., ed. South Carolina plant atlas (on-line resource).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wetter, M. A. et al. WISFLORA: Wisconsin vascular plant species (on-line resource).
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.
• Yatskievych, G. 1999–. Steyermark's Flora of Missouri, revised edition.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Tradescantia virginiana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Tradescantia virginiana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Tradescantia virginiana.

Synonyms:

• (=) "Tradescantia ×andersoniana W. Ludw. & Rohweder, nom. inval."
  

Check other web resources for Tradescantia virginiana L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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