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Mpumalanga, South Africa
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close up image of Tradescantia ohiensis COMMON SPIDERWORT at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing a single bloom at full open, detailing the petals, stigma, and anthers.This species is featured in the book Abundant Splendor: Wildflowers of the Tall Grass Prairie, which is now available for purchase. Contact frank@black-sweater-art.com for more information.
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St. Simons Island
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Mpumalanga, South Africa
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close up image of Tradescantia ohiensis COMMON SPIDERWORT at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing a single bloom at full open detailing the stigma and anthers.
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Native to Peru and Brazil, but planted more widely as Blue Ginger. KEW Gardens, London.
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close up image of Tradescantia ohiensis COMMON SPIDERWORT at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing a single stem with flower buds at the tip, one bud beginning to open, detailing the stem and leaves.
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Laura S. Walker SP Waycross
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Originally a weed of Asia and Africa, now pantropical. It can be a serious pest, spreading plant diseases. Photo from Malawi.
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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cose up image of Tradescantia ohiensis COMMON SPIDERWORT at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing a single specimen at full bloom detailing the flower stalks and buds; this species is a 'day bloomer' where new blooms open each day, to die back for other blooms to open the next day.
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field image of Tradescantia ohiensis COMMON SPIDERWORT at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing a medium sized stand at full bloom; a typical display.
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Florida, United States
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field image of Tradescantia ohiensis COMMON SPIDERWORT at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - the 2010 growing season was the fourth straight wet growing season in a row, and it set records for spring water. The large stand above, at full bloom, is unusually large with many more blooms than the previous three growing seasons.
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Known as Principe Azul in its native range from Nicaragua to Ecuador. Photo from Sarapiqui Valley, Costa Rica.
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field image of Tradescantia ohiensis COMMON SPIDERWORT at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing a small stand at full bloom detailing stem, leaves, and blooms.
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Family: CommelinaceaeDistribution: Found in moist sandy localities along the coast of Sri Lanka.Now it is also found in Tamilnadu and South coastal A.P10-15cm tall ,slender branching herb, rooting at nodes. Leaves linear lanceolate, 2-3x0.5cm, leaf sheath margin ciliate, flowers 0.6-1cm across, bluish in scorpioid cymes from upper leaf axils.Perianth lobes 3, with beautiful vertical lines, imbricate, ovate, stamens 3,anther lobes in blue color, fertile staminal filaments barbed at the base, staminodes 3 shorter, ovary tricarpellary, hypogynous, glabrous, capsule globose, 3 celled, 2 seeds in each cell,.Photographed at a coastal village near Krishnapatnam port.(near Bay of Bengal)
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Found through much of the Neotropics. Photo from the Iguazu area, northeastern Argentina.
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