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Plant profile · Austin & Hill Country

Climbing Dayflower

Commelina diffusa
native · Central Texas

Climbing Dayflower is a wildflower native to Central Texas that grows 1 ft tall. Blooms blue in summer.

Wet ground only. Usually found in wetlands and creek bottoms. It wants reliably moist ground and struggles in a dry upland bed.

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The facts

3 sources
Type
Wildflower
Height
About 1 ft
Bloom
Summer · blue
Foliage
Deciduous or dies back in winter

Where it grows

42 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).

Can you buy it?

Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.

also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.