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§1 Plant

Tradescantia subaspera Ker Gawl. var. subaspera

vernacular zigzag spiderwort — variety · Commelinaceae


USDA
TRSUS
GBIF
7227458
Rank
variety
zigzag spiderwort (Tradescantia subaspera var. subaspera)
Platephotograph · Jason HollingerCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§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

· 217 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 217 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 217 counties across 9 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 48 N
Indiana view state ↗ 57 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 46 N
Missouri view state ↗ 38 N
Ohio view state ↗ 15 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 8 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/TRSUS ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7227458 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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