Texas Spiderwort
Tradescantia humilisnative · Hill Country
Texas Spiderwort is a perennial wildflower native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 1–2 ft tall and 2 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water. Blooms blue and pink in spring. Good for bees and nectar insects.
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The facts
3 sources- Type
- Perennial wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Bloom
- Spring · blue, pink
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Recorded on loam, rich, rocky, saline, sand
- Wildlife
- Supports bees and nectar insects
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones CanyonlandsNorthern Blackland PrairieSouthern Post Oak SavannaFloodplains and Low TerracesSan Antonio Prairie
49 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.