Taxon: Tradescantia ohiensis Raf.

Common names:

• blue-jacket   (Source: F Wisconsin ) – English
  
• Ohio spiderwort   (Source: Atlas Florida ) – English
  
• smooth spiderwort   (Source: Glea Cron ed2 ) – English
  

Economic importance:

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

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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, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York [s.e.], Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota [s.e.], Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• also cultivated

References:

• Angelo, R. & D. E. Boufford. Atlas of the flora of New England (on-line resource).
• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Faden, R. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• 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.
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2.
• Townsend, J., ed. South Carolina plant atlas (on-line resource).
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan 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.
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Tradescantia ohiensis.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Tradescantia ohiensis.

Check other web resources for Tradescantia ohiensis Raf.:

• 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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