TRADESCANTIA 



last is hardy in the open grounil in central New York. 

 All of them are used for baskets and vases. The two 

 first are best known and are the plants commonly known 

 as Wandering Jew All of them may have striped 

 foliage bee Commehna and Zebiina 



AA Plant erect, or ascending fiom a decumbent base 

 B Species gi own pr> ma Illy fo) tlie coloied foliage 



greenhouse hindi, 

 c Stem none, 01 scaicdy using aboie the ground 

 fuscita, Lodd (properly Pi/nhelma L6ddigesii 

 Hassk ) btemless, brown tomentose or hairy Ivs ob 

 long ovate entire nbout 7 nerved shoit petioled fls 

 blue or blue purple 1 in or moie across borne m the 

 midst of the Ivs on ver\ shoit pedicels stamens 6 

 S Amer L B C 4 J74 B R b 482 B M 2330 -Lvs 

 6-8 in long Now referred to Pyrrheima being the 

 only species 



I ( Stem eiident, usually blanching 



D lyus disttc'i 

 ReglnsB, Lind & Roil 



sides of the stem and 

 about b in long the 

 feathered holder the sp i 

 the very edge of the le it I 

 Peru I H 39 147 40 r ( 

 13 477 R B 19 113 -Inn 

 in 1870 Named for the ^ii 

 a Dichorisindra 



DD Lit, ) 



\ 11 11) light plant 

 h on opposite 

 hoiizontallj 



I 11 I 1 side purple 

 I I (( III 11 699 

 I Uiuni from Peru 



11- I Ie.iins Perhaps 



TRAGOPOGON 



c. Umbels sessile. 

 Virginiana, Lmn Common Spiderwort Erect 

 1 iiicliiii., 1-1 tt .,10)11 us 01 ueailj so hs condupli 



I V I 



foil, I) I B ( ii 1 )i {IIS r 



elttta) —An exceedmgl} varia 

 ble plant \ ar occidentaUs, 



Ml \ 1 aliosauguiiiea I 1^ 

 daik red tls \ ai coccinea Ins 

 bright led fls Var caerillea 

 has bright blue fls Some of the 

 forms would better be regarded 

 as species See Rose, tonti 

 Nat Herb 5 204 



scars and fmalh 1 

 less long clustc ii 1 i 

 lanceolate acuminate 

 small crowded cluster 





like cluster Guatemala B M 



IlL le lliving, 



purple, numerous in 

 along the branches of a panicle 



RH 18b0 p 13G 



purple K} to AIo 



cc Cmbeh piduncled 

 Tdsea Vent '^lender and nearlv or quite simple 



^%H^i^ 



EE. Stamens unequal, -3 long and 3 short. 

 elongMa, Meyer. Nearly glabrous, procumbent and 

 rooting at the base, then suberect to the height of 1-2 

 ft.: Ivs. lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 sessile, light gl.aucous-green above and striped with 

 silver, reddish purple beneath: peduncles l-.i, terminal: 

 fls. rose-colored, the sepals green. Tropical Amer. 



TRAGOPOGON (Greek for goat s beaid) Comp6silw 

 liT s Beard Between 30 and 40 species of eiect bi 

 al oi r en 1 he 1 tl v 1 k 1 



