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Tradescantia x andersoniana |
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Virginia
Spiderwort, Widow's Tears |
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 3-9 |
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Hybrid Origin |
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18-24 inches tall with a 24 inches width |
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Flowers borne in
terminal umbels, subtended by linear-lanceolate bracts flowers
violet-purple, sometimes white, pink, or red,
sepals bright green, somewhat turgid and
inflated, 3 pubescent petals. |
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Late spring to
midsummer. |
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Alternate, Iinear-Ianceolate, to 15 inches
long, 1 inch wide, straplike leaves. |
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- 'Blue Stone' - Solid blue. 18 inches.
- 'Carmine Glow' - Carmine
to magenta flowers, 16 inches.
- 'Innocence' - Pure white flowers.
- 'Iris Pritchard' - White flowers flushed
with blue.
- 'Isis' - Deep blue, 18 inches.
- 'J.C. Weguelin' - Sky blue flowers.
- 'Osprey' - Large white flowers with blue
feathery stamens.
- 'Pauline' - Orchid pink flowers
- 'Purple Dome' - Rosy purple flowers.
- 'Red
Cloud' - Rosy red flowers, 15 inches tall.
- 'Snowcap' - Pure white flowers, 18 inches tall.
- 'Valor' - Crimson-purple flowers, 18-24 inches tall.
- 'Zwanenburg Blue' - Rich blue flowers, 18-24 inches.
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Tradescantia
is named for the plant collector,
John
Tradescant, who on a plant collection trip to
the United States, sent this genus back to
England in the 17th century. |
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