Data sources

Each value Trefle shows for Tradescantia occidentalis, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced2 Differs from sources1 Source not recorded9 Not on the record2 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database, Earlier Trefle data

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	(Britton) Smyth	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Bibliography	Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 16: 163 (1899)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1899	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Prairie spiderwort	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	W. Canada to C. & NE. U.S.A., Mexico (Sonora)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height	32 cm	31.72 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 7, 818	Differs from sources
Growth habit	Forb/herb	Forb/herb · Earlier Trefle data · Reported · 2026-10-19 value present before provenance tracking (2022 import), no source recorded	Sourced
Vegetable	false	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phenology
Duration	perennial	perennial · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 7, 818	Sourced
Cultivation
Minimum root depth	empty	51 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 818	Not on the record
Usda legacy
C n ratio	empty	19.3 · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 3 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 70	Not on the record

Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth, 1899 14% complete

Prairie spiderwort

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