Tradescantia humilis, the Texas spiderwort, is a species of Tradescantia native to Texas and southern Oklahoma.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesBiota of North America Program 2013 county distribution mapTurner, B.L. (2006). Texas species of Tradescantia (Commelinaceae). Phytologia 88: 312-331. It was named after John Tradescant (1608–1662) who served as gardener to Charles I of England.Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas It was described by US botanist Joseph Nelson Rose in 1899.
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