Index / Search / Tradescantia virginiana
§1 Plant
Tradescantia virginiana L.
vernacular Virginia 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
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 223 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 25–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–8
- Root depth
- 4 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 1.1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Blue
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,750,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 223 counties across 15 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Calhoun 01015
- Cherokee 01019
- Clarke 01025
- Cleburne 01029
- Coosa 01037
- DeKalb 01049
- Elmore 01051
- Etowah 01055
- Greene 01063
- Lowndes 01085
- Marion 01093
- Mobile 01097
- Montgomery 01101
- Pickens 01107
- Pike 01109
- Shelby 01117
- Tallapoosa 01123
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Wilcox 01131
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 53 N ▾
- Adair 21001
- Allen 21003
- Barren 21009
- Boyle 21021
- Breckinridge 21027
- Bullitt 21029
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Carter 21043
- Christian 21047
- Clark 21049
- Clay 21051
- Cumberland 21057
- Edmonson 21061
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Floyd 21071
- Garrard 21079
- Grayson 21085
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Hart 21099
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Larue 21123
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Marion 21155
- Marshall 21157
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- Metcalfe 21169
- Monroe 21171
- Montgomery 21173
- Morgan 21175
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Nelson 21179
- Oldham 21185
- Owen 21187
- Owsley 21189
- Perry 21193
- Powell 21197
- Pulaski 21199
- Robertson 21201
- Rockcastle 21203
- Rowan 21205
- Russell 21207
- Spencer 21215
- Trigg 21221
- Union 21225
- Warren 21227
- Wayne 21231
- Whitley 21235
Maine view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Cambria 42021
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Crawford 42039
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- Mercer 42085
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Warren 42123
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Vermont view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amelia 51007
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Carroll 51035
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Dickenson 51051
- Fairfax 51059
- Fluvanna 51065
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Goochland 51075
- Greene 51079
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Highland 51091
- Isle of Wight 51093
- Loudoun 51107
- Nelson 51125
- Page 51139
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Warren 51187
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TRVI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2765272 ↗Record version
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