Tradescantia tucumanensis
A little-documented spiderwort from the Andean foothill forests of southern Bolivia and northern Argentina, recorded mostly between 1,100 and 2,400 m. Treat it as a warm-summer, cool-and-drier-winter herb of forest edges and rocky slopes: bright dappled light, steady moisture while growing and a leaner, cooler winter.
Where it grows wild
Recorded from the Tucumano-Boliviano montane forest belt, where Tradescantia of this region typically grow along forest margins, clearings and shaded rocky slopes. Little species-specific habitat detail is published, so this is inferred from the genus and the recorded sites.
Records span 1,100 to 2,385 m, median about 1,985 m; two Argentine records near 100 m in the Northeast are outliers.
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