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Internal ID UUID64400f869a51b288387475
Scientific name Tradescantia bracteata
Authority Small
First published in Ill. Fl. N. U.S. 3: 510 (1898)

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The longbract spiderwort is a perennial herbaceous plant with a clumping habit. It has long, narrow, lance-shaped leaves and purple flowers with three petals. The flowers are borne in clusters at the ends of the stems. The plant is drought-tolerant and can be grown in full sun or partial shade.

Tradescantia bracteata, commonly known as the longbract spiderwort, is a species of Tradescantia native to the northern and central Great Plains and Mississippi Valley regions of the United States. It is a perennial herbaceous plant with a clumping habit, long, narrow, lance-shaped leaves, and purple flowers with three petals. It blooms from May to July and is drought-tolerant, able to be grown in full sun or partial shade.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Tradescantia bracteata f. albiflora J.W.Moore Rhodora 52: 55 (1950)
Tradescantia bracteata f. rosea J.W.Moore Rhodora 52: 55 (1950)

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Language Common/alternative name
English longbract spiderwort
English prairie spiderwort
English sticky spiderwort
Swedish klibbhårig båtblomma

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Expose seeds to natural outdoor winter conditions for 3 months, then gradually increase light and temperature in the spring.

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- Native
  • Northern America
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Illinois
      • Iowa
      • Kansas
      • Minnesota
      • Missouri
      • Nebraska
      • North Dakota
      • Oklahoma
      • South Dakota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Indiana
      • Massachusetts
      • Michigan
      • Ohio
      • Vermont
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Montana
      • Wyoming
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Arkansas
      • Louisiana
      • Mississippi

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000588888
USDA Plants TRBR
Tropicos 8300325
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:255906-2
The Plant List kew-270190
Missouri Botanical Garden 279257
Open Tree Of Life 1077462
NCBI Taxonomy 428259
Nature Serve 2.128041
IPNI 255906-2
iNaturalist 154217
GBIF 2765168
Freebase /m/0ds9y00
WisFlora 9229
EPPO TRABR
EOL 523203
USDA GRIN 407038
Wikipedia Tradescantia_bracteata

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Assessing the Heat Tolerance of Meiosis in Spanish Landraces of Tetraploid Wheat Triticum turgidum Naranjo T, Cuñado N, Santos JL Plants (Basel) 23-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9268776
doi:10.3390/plants11131661
PMID:35807613
Reinventory of the vascular plants of Mormon Island Crane Meadows after forty years of restoration, invasion, and climate change Caven AJ, Wiese JD Heliyon 03-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9192816
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09640
PMID:35711997
Examining the utility of DNA barcodes for the identification of tallgrass prairie flora Herzog SA, Latvis M Appl Plant Sci 24-Jan-2021
PMCID:PMC7845766
doi:10.1002/aps3.11405
PMID:33552747
The effect of heat stress on sugar beet recombination Arrieta M, Willems G, DePessemier J, Colas I, Burkholz A, Darracq A, Vanstraelen S, Pacolet P, Barré C, Kempeneers P, Waugh R, Barnes S, Ramsay L Theor Appl Genet 29-Sep-2020
PMCID:PMC7813734
doi:10.1007/s00122-020-03683-0
PMID:32990769
Evaluating Native Bee Communities and Nutrition in Managed Grasslands Stein DS, Debinski DM, Pleasants JM, Toth AL Environ Entomol 26-Mar-2020
PMCID:PMC7293027
doi:10.1093/ee/nvaa009
PMID:32215621
Anthropogenic Impacts on Meiosis in Plants Fuchs LK, Jenkins G, Phillips DW Front Plant Sci 28-Sep-2018
PMCID:PMC6172301
doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.01429
PMID:30323826
Spatiotemporal Asymmetry of the Meiotic Program Underlies the Predominantly Distal Distribution of Meiotic Crossovers in Barley Higgins JD, Perry RM, Barakate A, Ramsay L, Waugh R, Halpin C, Armstrong SJ, Franklin FC Plant Cell 26-Oct-2012
PMCID:PMC3517238
doi:10.1105/tpc.112.102483
PMID:23104831
The EXCESS MICROSPOROCYTES1 gene encodes a putative leucine-rich repeat receptor protein kinase that controls somatic and reproductive cell fates in the Arabidopsis anther Zhao DZ, Wang GF, Speal B, Ma H Genes Dev 01-Aug-2002
PMCID:PMC186413
doi:10.1101/gad.997902
PMID:12154130

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