Amethystina produces lavender-blue flowers with cream-white throats and small mahogany-red spots. Formosana is a rhizomatous perennial, spreading by stolons with upright, zig-zagging, hairy stems. Leaves are lance-shaped to ovate, veined, glossy and dark green in color, spotted darker purplish green. […]

Tricyrtis is a woodland perennial resembling false Solomon’s Seal in foliage. Flowers are somewhat orchid-like, spotted, 1 inch wide, blooming in late summer or early fall. Flowers bloom at leaf bases and in terminal clusters. They need rich organic soil, […]

Annual climber with lobed, rich green leaves. White flowers bloom in summer followed by white striped, slender fruit that turns orange when ripe. Also known as Trichosanthes cucumerina var. anguina.

Succulent with long stems and gray leaves with white bristles. Red flowers bloom from spring to fall.

Zanonia is a clump-forming perennial with upright or decumbent stems and widely elliptic to inversely lance-shaped dark green leaves. Produces white flowers in paired, axillary cymes. In general, Tradescantias are tufted clumping perennials with erect, branching stems and lance-shaped, narrow, […]

Spathacea is a clump-forming perennial with rosettes of semi-upright, linear-lance-shaped dark green leaves above and deep purple underneath. Produces white flowers in paired, axillary cymes. In general, Tradescantias are tufted clumping perennials with erect, branching stems and lance-shaped, narrow, green […]

Pallida, also known as Purple Heart, is a trailing perennial with ascending purple stems, large, pointed, oblong leaves that are fleshy, hairless and rich violet-purple. Produces bright pink flowers in paired cymes. In general, Tradescantias are tufted clumping perennials with […]

Variegata has leaves variably striped green white, purple or cream. Part of the Fluminensis species, also known as Wandering Jew, which is a trailing perennial with think, pointed ovate to oblong, light green leaves, stained purple underneath. Produces white flowers […]

Albovittata has light green leaves with white stripes and purple beneath that partially show through the almost transparent upper surfaces. Fluminensis, also known as Wandering Jew, is a trailing perennial with thick, pointed ovate to oblong, light green leaves, stained […]

Cerinthoides is a hardy, creeping or ascending perennial with thick, branching stems and dark green leaves, hairless above, hairy beneath. Produces pink and white flowers intermittently throughout the year. In general, Tradescantias are tufted clumping perennials with erect, branching stems […]