Giant Spiderwort
Tradescantia gigantea
Giant spiderwort is a robust Texas spiderwort with large violet-blue, three-petaled flowers that open each morning over arching grassy leaves, tough and long-blooming in spring.
- Family
- Commelinaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April
- Bloom colors
- white, pink, blue, purple
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- border
- Native states
- LA, TX
Related native plants
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- Ohio Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis)
- Prairie Spiderwort (Tradescantia occidentalis)
- Virginia Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana)
- Zigzag Spiderwort (Tradescantia subaspera)
- Hairystem Spiderwort (Tradescantia hirsuticaulis)
- Stalked Spiderwort (Tradescantia pedicellata)