Spiderwort
Tradescantia ohiensis Raf.
other common names: blue jackets, cow slobbers, Job’s tears, Ohio spiderwort, widow tears
Tradescantia: in honor of John (the older) Tradescant, gardener to Charles I, King of England in the early 17th century
Ohiensis: meaning “of or from Ohio”
Spiderwort family: Commelinaceae
Photograph by Thomas Rosburg, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition
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