PLANTS Profile for Tradescantia occidentalis (prairie spiderwort)

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PLANTS Profile

Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth
prairie spiderwort

Symbol:

TROC

Group:

Monocot

Family:

Commelinaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Forb/herb

Native Status:

L48		N
CAN		N

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Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth

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Distribution:
Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth


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USA (AR, AZ, CO, IA, KS, LA, MN, MT, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY, OK, SD, TX, UT, WI, WY), CAN (AB, MB, SK)

Related Taxa:
Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth

View 10 genera in Commelinaceae, 33 species in Tradescantia or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.

Distribution of Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth var. melanthera MacRoberts. .

Tradescantia occidentalis var. melanthera
prairie spiderwort

Distribution of Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth var. occidentalis. . Image Available.

Tradescantia occidentalis var. occidentalis
prairie spiderwort

Distribution of Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth var. scopulorum (Rose) E.S. Anderson & Woodson. . Image Available.

Tradescantia occidentalis var. scopulorum
prairie spiderwort

Native

Introduced

Classification:
Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass	Commelinidae
Order	Commelinales
Family	Commelinaceae – Spiderwort family
Genus	Tradescantia L. – spiderwort
Species	Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth – prairie spiderwort

Wetland Indicator Status:

NOTE: On June 1, 2012, the 2012 National Wetland Plant List superseded the information below (see Federal Register, May 9, 2012, 77(90): 27210-27214[https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-11176]). For updated wetland information about this species, see the latest wetland list.

Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth

Nat. Ind.

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Reg. 9

Reg. 0

Reg. A

Reg. C

Reg. H

UPL,FACW

UPL

FACU

FACW

Interpreting Wetland Indicator Status

More Accounts and Images:
Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View species account and distribution map from Flora of North America (FNA).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 39168.

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

Time Generated: 05/20/2013 12:31 AM CDT