Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys

Scientific Name:
Common Name(s):
Tradescantia spp.
Wandering Jew
Height:
Leaves:
Flowers:
Bark:
Fruit:
Other:
N/A
Leaves parallel-veined, alternate, simple, can be green or purple depending
on species
Flowers white, in small clusters at stem tips
N/A
Fruits small capsules containing small black seeds
Creeping, trailing, subsucculent perennial herb, much branched, with branch
tips erect; often forming dense ground cover
Treatment:
Identification & Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida’s
Natural Areas by K.A Langeland, K. Craddock Burks
www.plantatlas.usf.edu/
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