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Tradescantia pinetorum
Pinewoods spiderwort is a small perennial wildflower from open pine woodlands in Arizona, New Mexico and northern Mexico, grouped with other spiderworts in the Commelinaceae family. It is grown mainly as a hardy, drought-tolerant garden or native-plant specimen, and it needs good drainage and a sunny to partly shaded spot.
Tradescantia pinetorum, the pinewoods spiderwort, is a species of Tradescantia and part of the family Commelinaceae.
Tradescantia pinetorum is found in open woods in the southwestern United States (Arizona + New Mexico) and northwestern Mexico (Chihuahua y Sonora).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tradescantia pinetorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
