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Spiderwort (122 words) |
 | The spiderwort is a perennial plant that grows 1 to 2 feet tall and is commonly found individually or in clumps in wooded areas and fields. |
 | Though sometimes accounted a weed, spiderwort is cultivated for borders and also used in containers. |
 | The spiderwort was introduced to Europe in 1629, surely one of the first North American plants to cross the Atlantic. |
| spiderwort - HighBeam Encyclopedia (169 words) |
 | spiderwort common name for some members of the Commelinaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical succulent herbs found especially in Africa and the Americas. |
 | Species of the spiderworts (genus Tradescantia) and the dayflowers (genus Commelina) are indigenous to the United States, particularly in the Southeast. |
 | Ohio spiderwort is a hardy perennial native to much of the middle of the United States from Minnesota to Ohio and south through Arkansas. |