Taxon: Tradescantia pallida (Rose) D. R. Hunt

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Common names:

• purpleheart   (Source: Hortus 3 [as Setcreasea purpurea]) – English
  
• mexikanische Dreimasterblume   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• purpurblad   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F; R. Faden, pers. comm. 1996)
  

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Veracruz, Yucatan

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida, Louisiana
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Jalisco
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Mesoamerica: Honduras [natzd.?]; Nicaragua [natzd.?]
  Southern South America: Argentina - Misiones

• also cultivated

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• 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).
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Faden, R. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= Setcreasea purpurea].
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Tradescantia pallida.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Tradescantia pallida.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Setcreasea pallida Rose (basionym)
  
• (=) Setcreasea purpurea Boom
  

Check other web resources for Tradescantia pallida (Rose) D. R. Hunt:

• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• 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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