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Purple Heart

Tradescantia pallida

Photo by Steffi
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39.1031, -84.512

Field Notes

Description:

Some type of spiderwort?

Habitat:

Krohn’s Conservatory

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
Ashish
Oh..its a herb of Commelinaceae family..like Murdannia..!!
Steffi
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
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
Check Murdannia herb species
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PublishedJuly 5, 2011

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