Digital Herbaria

Specimen & Label Data

Tradescantia hirsutifolia

Spiderwort

Commelinaceae

Location: 14511 Star Cross Trail, Helotes.
Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Bottom of west facing hill; late afternoon shade; soil: mixed limestone debris, humus and stone.

Description: Stems 26 cm tall; sepals 3.6-4.5 x 12 mm, tip narrowly acute. Petals 14 mm wide, 15 mm long, broadly ovate and purple to pink; pedicel 28 x 1 mm, pale green, glandular pilose. Bracts appear saccate. Cyme umbellate. Roots tuberous. Ovary ovoid and pubescent.

County: Bexar
Collector: Mike Fox
Collection Date: Mar 24, 1994
Specimen number: 63

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0700
Accession Date: Apr 24, 1994
Accession Number: 51

Annotations: SCXRB