Tradescantia commelinoides
A small, low-growing spiderwort of the Mexican and Guatemalan highlands, mostly recorded at 2000–2700 m in pine-oak forest and its clearings. It grows in the summer rains and expects a cool, dry winter, so it does best with bright filtered light, cool nights and a drier winter.
Where it grows wild
Most records come from the central and southern Mexican highlands in pine-oak and oak forest, on banks, clearings and shaded roadsides. Microhabitat is generalised from the recorded sites and related highland Tradescantia.
Recorded from about 50 to 3570 m, median 2300 m (589 records); the bulk lies at 2000–2700 m.
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