Tradescantia fluminensisVell.

Rio Spiderwort

WFO wfo-0000589094 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Tradescantia fluminensis, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. a Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-13 / obs. 197279930
Tradescantia fluminensis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204457871
Tradescantia fluminensis, photographed by Luka S. (someplant)
fig. c Luka S. (someplant), CC0 1.0 / obs. 205398942
Tradescantia fluminensis, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. d Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203786884
Tradescantia fluminensis, photographed by 古淑玲
fig. e 古淑玲, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195882498
Tradescantia fluminensis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201008818
Tradescantia fluminensis, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. g Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195783718
Tradescantia fluminensis, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. h Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196469745

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Flowering n = 1,250 observations

Peak flowering in Oct, from 1,250 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Tradescantia albiflora Kunth
  • Tradescantia albovittata Pynaert
  • Tradescantia laekenensis hort. ex L.H.Bailey & E.Z.Bailey

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.