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Tradescantia occidentalis (Western spiderwort)

Synonyms: Tradescantia occidentalis var. typica; Tradescantia virginiana var. occidentalis (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Tradescantia occidentalis, the prairie spiderwort or western spiderwort, is a plant in the dayflower family, Commelinaceae. It is common and widespread across the western Great Plains of the United States, as well as in Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah and Sonora, but is listed as a threatened species in Canada.
View Wikipedia Record: Tradescantia occidentalis

Infraspecies

Tradescantia occidentalis var. melanthera (Attributes)
Tradescantia occidentalis var. occidentalis (prairie spiderwort) (Attributes)
Tradescantia occidentalis var. scopulorum (prairie spiderwort) (Attributes)

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Herb

Protected Areas

Predators

Perognathus flavescens (plains pocket mouse)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Food Habits of Rodents Inhabiting Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems of Central New Mexico, ANDREW G. HOPE AND ROBERT R. PARMENTER, Special Publication of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, NUMBER 9, pp. 1–75 (2007)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0