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Spiderwort

Tradescantia spp.

Description:

The flowers can be white, pink, or purple, but are most commonly bright blue, with three petals and six yellow anthers.

Habitat:

Native to the New World from southern Canada south to northern Argentina.


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5 Comments

Marta RubioTexeira
Marta RubioTexeira 10 months ago

Thanks for the nice comments. We have to thank Nature that it makes such beautiful living designs :-)

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 10 months ago

Fantastic capture...Marta... These flowers has amazing structure and your spotting revealed it.. Great job...!!

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 10 months ago

Lovely!

Jellis
Jellis 10 months ago

Spiderwort, Tradescantia
subspecies not sure of

joanbstanley
joanbstanley 10 months ago

Something in the Tradescantia family. Possibly a Spiderwort.

Leuven, Vlaanderen, Belgium

Lat: 50.86, Long: 4.69

Spotted on Jun 9, 2012
Submitted on Jun 25, 2012

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