Index / Search / Tradescantia bracteata
§1 Plant
Tradescantia bracteata Small
vernacular longbract spiderwort — species · Commelinaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Commelinaceae Mirb.
- Genus
- Tradescantia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 280 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 280 counties across 15 states/territories.
Illinois view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 56 N ▾
- Allen 20001
- Bourbon 20011
- Brown 20013
- Butler 20015
- Chase 20017
- Cherokee 20021
- Clay 20027
- Cloud 20029
- Cowley 20035
- Dickinson 20041
- Doniphan 20043
- Douglas 20045
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Franklin 20059
- Geary 20061
- Graham 20065
- Greenwood 20073
- Harvey 20079
- Jackson 20085
- Jefferson 20087
- Johnson 20091
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Labette 20099
- Leavenworth 20103
- Lyon 20111
- Miami 20121
- Mitchell 20123
- Montgomery 20125
- Nemaha 20131
- Neosho 20133
- Osage 20139
- Osborne 20141
- Ottawa 20143
- Phillips 20147
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rooks 20163
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Sedgwick 20173
- Shawnee 20177
- Smith 20183
- Stafford 20185
- Sumner 20191
- Wabaunsee 20197
- Washington 20201
- Wilson 20205
- Woodson 20207
- Wyandotte 20209
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 52 N ▾
- Anoka 27003
- Big Stone 27011
- Blue Earth 27013
- Brown 27015
- Carver 27019
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Clay 27027
- Cottonwood 27033
- Dakota 27037
- Dodge 27039
- Faribault 27043
- Fillmore 27045
- Goodhue 27049
- Grant 27051
- Hennepin 27053
- Houston 27055
- Jackson 27063
- Le Sueur 27079
- Lincoln 27081
- Lyon 27083
- Martin 27091
- McLeod 27085
- Meeker 27093
- Morrison 27097
- Mower 27099
- Murray 27101
- Nicollet 27103
- Nobles 27105
- Norman 27107
- Olmsted 27109
- Otter Tail 27111
- Pipestone 27117
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Ramsey 27123
- Redwood 27127
- Renville 27129
- Rice 27131
- Rock 27133
- Scott 27139
- Stearns 27145
- Steele 27147
- Todd 27153
- Wabasha 27157
- Waseca 27161
- Washington 27163
- Watonwan 27165
- Wilkin 27167
- Winona 27169
- Wright 27171
- Yellow Medicine 27173
Missouri view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 49 N ▾
- Adams 31001
- Box Butte 31013
- Boyd 31015
- Brown 31017
- Buffalo 31019
- Burt 31021
- Cass 31025
- Cherry 31031
- Clay 31035
- Cuming 31039
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Dixon 31051
- Dodge 31053
- Douglas 31055
- Franklin 31061
- Gage 31067
- Hall 31079
- Hamilton 31081
- Holt 31089
- Hooker 31091
- Howard 31093
- Jefferson 31095
- Kearney 31099
- Keith 31101
- Lancaster 31109
- Lincoln 31111
- Madison 31119
- McPherson 31117
- Merrick 31121
- Nance 31125
- Nemaha 31127
- Otoe 31131
- Pawnee 31133
- Perkins 31135
- Phelps 31137
- Red Willow 31145
- Richardson 31147
- Rock 31149
- Sarpy 31153
- Saunders 31155
- Sheridan 31161
- Sherman 31163
- Sioux 31165
- Thurston 31173
- Washington 31177
- Webster 31181
- Wheeler 31183
- York 31185
North Dakota view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 7 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Aurora 46003
- Brookings 46011
- Brown 46013
- Brule 46015
- Butte 46019
- Charles Mix 46023
- Clay 46027
- Codington 46029
- Corson 46031
- Custer 46033
- Davison 46035
- Dewey 46041
- Fall River 46047
- Grant 46051
- Gregory 46053
- Hamlin 46057
- Harding 46063
- Jackson 46071
- Lawrence 46081
- Lincoln 46083
- Lyman 46085
- Mellette 46095
- Minnehaha 46099
- Pennington 46103
- Roberts 46109
- Stanley 46117
- Todd 46121
- Tripp 46123
- Union 46127
- Yankton 46135
- Ziebach 46137
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TRBR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2765168 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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