Tradescantia occidentalis
A hardy herbaceous spiderwort of the western Great Plains and south-western United States, with grassy blue-green leaves and blue to violet three-petalled flowers in late spring. It is a full-sun prairie plant that dies back to the ground and needs a real cold winter dormancy.
Where it grows wild
Grows in prairie, open grassland, sandhills, dunes and rocky foothill slopes, usually on sandy or gravelly soils in full sun.
From near sea level in Texas to about 2,400 m in the Rockies. Most records are on the high plains and Front Range foothills at about 1,500 to 1,900 m.
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