THE LATIN and common names of a plant might be compared to a resume. The names often tell a little about the plant’s life story – where it got its start and what it looks like. Take spiderwort, a ...

Each morning, I pull into my parking spot, which is right in front of our cottage garden. This time of the year it is the bluest blue greeting me, thanks to our native spiderwort. Spiderworts are ...

The water relations of leaves of Tradescantia virginiana were studied using the miniaturized pressure probe (Hüsken, E. Steudle, Zimmermann, 1978 Plant Physiol. 61, 158—163). Under well-watered ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 25, No. 89 (December 1974), pp. 1147-1156 (10 pages) Hydraulic conductances of leaf tissues of Hedera helix and Tradescantia virginiana leaves were measured. It ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Historic plate number: "161, F196-G8." Tradescantia is actually a genus of 85 species. The plant pictured is probably either Tradescantia ...

Belling, T, and Blakeslee, A F. 1922. The assortment of chromosomes in triploid Daturas. Amer Nat, 56, 339–346.

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Virginia has a long and rich horticultural history. From Native Americans teaching early Western settlers about important food crops to the plant hunter John Tradescant, sent by King Charles the First ...