Native records: 4 botanical areas
Argentina Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South, 1 more areas
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Distribution is shown as WGSRPD Level 3 areas. It does not imply the species occurs throughout an entire area.
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A hemiepiphytic subshrub of wet tropical climates. Native to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay.
This entry carries only the classification and distribution data recorded in WCVP. A written account is not yet available.
Distribution areas
Argentina
- Argentina NortheastNative
Brazil
- Brazil SouthNative
- Brazil SoutheastNative
United States of America
- FloridaIntroduced
Uruguay
- UruguayNative
Climate of the native range
The Köppen climate classes found in the areas this plant is recorded as native to. It does not mean an entire area has that climate.
- Cfa Temperate, no dry season, hot summer
- Aw Tropical, savannah
- Cfb Temperate, no dry season, warm summer
- Cwa Temperate, dry winter, hot summer
The same climate occurs in 108 areas worldwide, 103 of which have no record of this plant. See them on the map
A matching climate does not mean the plant can grow there. Range limits are also set by things other than climate — dispersal history, soils, competition. Source: Beck et al. (2023), CC BY 4.0 (observed period 1991–2020).
Other names
Succulent spiderwort、succulent spiderwort
- Family
- Commelinaceae
- Genus
- Tradescantia
Other species in Tradescantia
- Tradescantia burchii
- Tradescantia cerinthoidesflowering inch plant
- Tradescantia chrysophylla
- Tradescantia cirrifera
- Tradescantia commelinoidesDayflower tradescantia
- Tradescantia crassifoliaLeatherleaf Spiderwort
- Tradescantia cymbispatha
- Tradescantia deficiens
- Tradescantia edwardsianaPlateau spiderwort
- Tradescantia ernestianaErnest's Spiderwort
- Tradescantia exaltata
- Tradescantia fluminensisSmall-leaf Spiderwort
Sources
World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
Argentina · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
Open sourceWorld Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
Brazil · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
Open sourceWorld Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
Uruguay · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
Open sourceWorld Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
United States of America · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
Open source
Image information
Photograph of Tradescantia crassula
Curtis, William; Curtis, Samuel; Hooker, Joseph-Dalton; Hooker, William Jackson; Sims, John · Public domain · File page