TRADESCANTIA ROSEA Vent.
Tradcscantia Virginica Walt. Fl. Car. 119. I 78S. Not 7. Mr gintana L.
Tradcscantia rosea Vent. Hort. Cels, pl. 21. I800.
Perennial by rootstocks, slender, nearly glabrous, bright green. Stems erect or nearly so, often densely tufted, 1-5 dm. tall, usually simple ; leaves narrowly linear or nearly filiform, 1-3 dm. long, flat or involutely folded, acuminate, sometimes surpassing the peduncles ; sheaths cylindric or funnelform, .5-1 cm. long, fringed with long white cilia ; cymes usually solitary, or sometimes 2 to gether, terminal, their peduncles 8-15 cm. long, subtended by
linear bracts ; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, glabrous ; sepals lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 5-6 mm. long, acutish, petals pink or rose color, orbicular-oblong, obtuse; filaments glabrous, anther-cells contiguous ; capsules subglobose, 4-5 mm. in diameter.
Sandy soil, Maryland to Missouri, south to Florida and Texas. Spring and summer.