Tradescantia

Accepted species 82 Documented here 40 Family Commelinaceae

Accepted species 82 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell. 3,286 documented
Tradescantia ohiensis Raf. 1,025 documented
Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth 370 documented
Tradescantia virginiana L. 322 documented
Tradescantia zebrina Heynh. ex Bosse 242 documented
Tradescantia zanonia (L.) Sw. 225 documented
Tradescantia pallida (Rose) D.R.Hunt 217 documented
Tradescantia spathacea Sw. 206 documented
Tradescantia subaspera Ker Gawl. 150 documented
Tradescantia gigantea Rose 103 documented
Tradescantia hirsutiflora Bush 102 documented
Tradescantia bracteata Small 62 documented
Tradescantia crassifolia Cav. 44 documented
Tradescantia hirsuticaulis Small 41 documented
Tradescantia commelinoides Schult. & Schult.f. 40 documented
Tradescantia poelliae D.R.Hunt 31 documented
Tradescantia edwardsiana Tharp 26 documented
Tradescantia pinetorum Greene 22 documented
Tradescantia reverchonii Bush 21 documented
Tradescantia cerinthoides Kunth 20 documented
Tradescantia brevifolia Rose 18 documented
Tradescantia tharpii E.S.Anderson & Woodson 16 documented
Tradescantia pedicellata Celarier 15 documented
Tradescantia wrightii Rose & Bush 13 documented
Tradescantia roseolens Small 11 documented
Tradescantia subacaulis Bush 11 documented
Tradescantia boliviana (Hassk.) J.R.Grant 8 documented
Tradescantia ernestiana E.S.Anderson & Woodson 8 documented
Tradescantia ozarkana E.S.Anderson & Woodson 8 documented
Tradescantia peninsularis Brandegee 8 documented
Tradescantia schippii D.R.Hunt 8 documented
Tradescantia crassula Link & Otto 7 documented
Tradescantia humilis Rose 7 documented
Tradescantia longipes E.S.Anderson & Woodson 7 documented
Tradescantia mundula Kunth 6 documented
Tradescantia nuevoleonensis Matuda 5 documented
Tradescantia sillamontana Matuda 5 documented
Tradescantia atlantica M.Pell. 4 documented
Tradescantia tucumanensis M.Pell. 4 documented
Tradescantia praetermissa M.Pell. 3 documented
Tradescantia buckleyi (I.M.Johnst.) D.R.Hunt 2 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia cymbispatha C.B.Clarke 2 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia umbraculifera Hand.-Mazz. 2 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia andrieuxii C.B.Clarke 1 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia grantii Faden 1 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia huehueteca (Standl. & Steyerm.) D.R.Hunt 1 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia seubertiana M.Pell. 1 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia ambigua Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia burchii D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia chrysophylla M.Pell. 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia cirrifera Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia deficiens Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia exaltata D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia gentryi D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia gracillima Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia guiengolensis Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia gypsophila B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia hertweckiae M.Pell. 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia hirta D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia leiandra Torr. 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia llamasii Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia masonii Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia maysillesii Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia mcvaughii D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia mirandae Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia mixtecana Hern.-Cárdenas, López-Ferr. & Espejo 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia monosperma Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia murilloae Zamudio, Espejo, López-Ferr. & Ceja 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia orchidophylla Rose & Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia petiolaris M.E.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia petricola J.R.Grant 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia plusiantha Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia pygmaea D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia rozynskii Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia soconuscana Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia standleyi Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia stenophylla Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia tenella Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia tepoxtlana Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia tonalamonticola Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia valida G.Brückn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tradescantia velutina Kunth & C.D.Bouché 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.