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Purple Heart

Tradescantia pallida

Description:

Some type of spiderwort?

Habitat:

Krohn’s Conservatory

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4 Comments

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Oh..its a herb of Commelinaceae family..like Murdannia..!!

Steffi
Steffi 12 years ago

Thanks for the help, guys! The leaves were purple and the petals tapered slightly like the Tradescantia so I think that's probably it.

jess.blank
jess.blank 12 years ago

I can't see the whole plant, but if it's kind of a trailing groundcover with dark purple leaves try looking up Purple Heart, Tradescantia pallida, and see if that's your plant.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Check Murdannia herb species

Steffi
Spotted by
Steffi

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Spotted on Jun 20, 2011
Submitted on Jul 5, 2011

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