Index / Search / Tradescantia occidentalis var. occidentalis
§1 Plant
Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth var. occidentalis
vernacular prairie spiderwort — variety · Commelinaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Commelinaceae Mirb.
- Genus
- Tradescantia
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 184 counties across 11 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 184 counties across 11 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 51 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Clay 20027
- Cloud 20029
- Comanche 20033
- Cowley 20035
- Dickinson 20041
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Gray 20069
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Harvey 20079
- Haskell 20081
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Lincoln 20105
- Meade 20119
- Mitchell 20123
- Morton 20129
- Norton 20137
- Ottawa 20143
- Pawnee 20145
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rice 20159
- Rooks 20163
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Sedgwick 20173
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Stafford 20185
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Trego 20195
- Wabaunsee 20197
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
Minnesota view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Antelope 31003
- Arthur 31005
- Blaine 31009
- Boone 31011
- Box Butte 31013
- Boyd 31015
- Brown 31017
- Buffalo 31019
- Chase 31029
- Cherry 31031
- Cheyenne 31033
- Cuming 31039
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Deuel 31049
- Dundy 31057
- Franklin 31061
- Garden 31069
- Garfield 31071
- Greeley 31077
- Hall 31079
- Holt 31089
- Howard 31093
- Kearney 31099
- Keith 31101
- Kimball 31105
- Knox 31107
- Lancaster 31109
- Lincoln 31111
- Logan 31113
- Loup 31115
- Madison 31119
- Merrick 31121
- Morrill 31123
- Nuckolls 31129
- Pierce 31139
- Red Willow 31145
- Rock 31149
- Sarpy 31153
- Scotts Bluff 31157
- Sheridan 31161
- Sioux 31165
- Thayer 31169
- Thomas 31171
New Mexico view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 18 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 6 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TROCO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2765326 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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