| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commelinaceae | Callisia |  (c) Hill, Sonnia | |||
| Commelinaceae | Callisia cordifolia | Florida Roseling | Calcareous hammocks, disturbed areas. | Native from n. peninsular Florida to s. Florida; Mexico, the West Indies, and n. South America; reported as well for nw. Georgia (Faden in FNA 2000), where presumably a waif. |  (c) Cortés, Juan Cruzado - CC-BY-SA |
| Commelinaceae | Callisia fragrans | Basketflower | Disturbed areas. | Native of Mexico. |  (c) Yj - CC-BY |
| Commelinaceae | Callisia micrantha | Small-flowered Roseling | Oak and mesquite woodlands, coastal prairies. | Endemic in s. Texas. | (c) Hill, Sonnia |
| Commelinaceae | Callisia repens | Turtle Vine, Chain Plant, Inch Plant, "Bolivian Jew" | Lawns, disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. |  (c) Shorma, Jared - CC-BY |
| Commelinaceae | Commelina | Dayflower |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY | ||
| Commelinaceae | Commelina benghalensis | Tropical Spiderwort, Bengal Dayflower | Fields. | Native of tropical s. Asia and becoming a serious weed. This annual, pantropical weed is well established in Florida and s. Georgia (Faden 1993). Spot infestations have been reported in North Carolina (Wayne County), South Carolina (Beaufort, Dorchester, Edgefield, Orangeburg, Pickens counties), Alabama (Barger et al. 2012), and Mississippi as well. |  (c) Spaulding, Dan - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Commelinaceae | Commelina caroliniana | Indian Dayflower | Moist disturbed areas, fields. | Native of India and Bangladesh. |  (c) Valke, Dinesh - CC-BY-SA |
| Commelinaceae | Commelina communis | Common Dayflower | Gardens, bottomlands, disturbed ground, and a common invader of rocky glades. | Native of Asia. | (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Commelinaceae | Commelina diffusa | Creeping Dayflower | Mudflats, alluvial margins, bottomlands, also fields and disturbed ground. | Virginia west to Missouri, south to s. Florida and s. Texas, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West Indies; Africa and e., se., and s. Asia. Probably native in our area, but sometimes regarded as an Old World species; the species was encountered very early inland, so it is plausible as a native or as an early introduction. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Commelinaceae | Commelina erecta var. angustifolia | Sand Dayflower | Dunes and dry sand flats on barrier islands, longleaf pine sandhills, other dry sandy sites, shale barrens, other dry rocky sites. | E. North Carolina south to s. Florida, west to Texas, and north and west in the interior to Iowa, nw. Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico; also apparently in Central and South America. |  (c) Doby, Joshua - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Commelinaceae | Commelina erecta var. deamiana | Midwestern Dayflower | Usually in dry, sandy soils. | Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa south to Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. |  (c) Keesling, Jim - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Commelinaceae | Commelina erecta var. erecta | Erect Dayflower | Dry openings and woodlands, especially in thin soil around rock outcrops, streambanks, riverbanks, mesic forests. | Pennsylvania west to Missouri and e. Kansas, south to Florida and Texas; also apparently in Central and South America. |  (c) McCormick, Carol Ann |
| Commelinaceae | Commelina forskaolii | Rat's-ear | Disturbed areas. | Native of Old World tropics. |  (c) Kansara, Parth - CC-BY |
| Commelinaceae | Commelina gambiae | Disturbed areas. | A West African species first collected in North America in 1976 (Manatee County, Florida); Faden (1993) reported that it "appears to be spreading rapidly", but whether it can spread significantly northward from peninsular Florida is questionable. |  (c) Horn, Jay - CC-BY | |
| Commelinaceae | Commelina gigas | Climbing Dayflower | Moist hammocks, lake edges, strand swamps, wet disturbed areas. | Endemic to Florida (no matching material is known elsewhere in the World; Faden 1993). See Faden (1993) for discussion. |  (c) Bradford, Ashley - CC-BY-NC |
| Commelinaceae | Commelina virginica | Virginia Dayflower | Bottomlands, swamp forests, tidal swamp forests, other moist to wet forests and forest edges. | New Jersey west to Kansas and Oklahoma, south to Florida and Texas. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Commelinaceae | Commelinaceae | Spiderwort Family | (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY | ||
| Commelinaceae | Cuthbertia | Roseling |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY | ||
| Commelinaceae | Cuthbertia graminea | Grassleaf Roseling | Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands. | Se. Virginia south through North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to c. peninsula Florida and e. Florida Panhandle. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Commelinaceae | Cuthbertia ornata | Florida Roseling, Scrub Roseling | Longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub, dunes. | Florida peninsula (north to Alachua County); disjunct in Gulf County in the Florida Panhandle. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Commelinaceae | Cuthbertia rosea | Common Roseling | Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands. | Maryland south to peninsular Florida, west to s. Alabama. |  (c) Bradley, Keith - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Commelinaceae | Gibasis | Bridalveil |  (c) Guin, Karen - CC-BY | ||
| Commelinaceae | Gibasis pellucida | Dotted Bridalveil, Tahitian Bridalveil | Disturbed areas, invasive in peninsular FL and beginning to be seen establishing elsewhere in the deep South, as in Houston County, AL (Barger et al. 2023). | Native of Mexico (contrary to one of the common names). | (c) Guin, Karen - CC-BY |
| Commelinaceae | Murdannia | Murdannia, Dewflower |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Commelinaceae | Murdannia keisak | Mud-Annie, Marsh Dewflower | Stream banks, canals, ditches, freshwater marshes (tidal and non-tidal), swamp forests, wet areas in bottomlands, wet disturbed places. | Native of e. Asia, now widespread in the se. United States. M. keisak was introduced to South Carolina and Louisiana in the 1920s and 1930s, probably as a contaminant in rice seed, but the seeds are now distributed by water and waterfowl; it is now a very serious invasive in a wide range of wetland habitats (Dunn & Sharitz 1990). | (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Commelinaceae | Murdannia nudiflora | Naked-stem Dewflower | Moist sands, ditches, wet disturbed places. | Native of Asia, now widespread in the tropics and subtropics of both hemispheres. This species apparently arrived in our region earlier than M. keisak (Small 1933, for instance, treats this species and not M. keisak), but has naturalized less aggressively and is distinctly less common. Naturalized in Virginia (James City County and Henrico County; Virginia Botanical Associates 2026). |  (c) Horn, Jay |
| Commelinaceae | Murdannia spirata var. parviflora | Asiatic Dewflower | Marshes, wet Florida prairies. | Native of tropical s. Asia. |  (c) Horn, Jay - CC-BY |
| Commelinaceae | Tinantia |  (c) velodrome - CC-BY | |||
| Commelinaceae | Tinantia anomala | Widow's-tears | Limestone gravel, wooded slopes. | Apparently endemic in Texas. |  (c) lanechaffin - CC0 |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia | Spiderwort |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | ||
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia bracteata | Prairie Spiderwort, Sticky Spiderwort | Mesic upland prairies. | S. Michigan Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana south to s. Indiana, s. Illinois, s. Missouri, w. Arkansas, s. Oklahoma, w. Kansas, and e. Wyoming. |  (c) Claudé, Pineda - CC-BY |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia buckleyi | Buckley's Spiderwort | Clay soils. | S. Texas south to Mexico (Tamaulipas). | |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia crassula | Disturbed oak hammocks. | Native of South America. | ||
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia edwardsiana | Plateau Spiderwort | Moist forests in ravines and floodplains. | Ne. Texas south to Edwards Plateau, Texas. |  (c) Keith, Eric - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia ernestiana | Ernest's Spiderwort | Dry woodlands. | Primarily Ozarkian (Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, disjunct east to nw. Georgia and ne. Alabama, and west to n. Texas (Faden in FNA 2000). |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia fluminensis | Wandering Jew, Small-leaf Spiderwort, Small-leaf Wandering Jew | Disturbed areas, lawns, vacant lots, moist suburban woods, along streams. | Native of South America. Reported for Beaufort Co. South Carolina (Daniel C. Payne 2009, pers. comm.). |  (c) Corder, Brandon |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia gigantea | Giant Spiderwort | Limestone soils. | N. Louisiana and n. Texas south to c. Texas. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia hirsuticaulis | Hairy Spiderwort | Dry rocky woodlands, and rock outcrops (especially granitic flatrocks and domes). | W. North Carolina and wc. Tennessee south to sc. South Carolina, s. Georgia, s. Alabama, and sc. Mississippi; west of the Mississippi River in Arkansas, e. Oklahoma, and nw. Louisiana. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia hirsutiflora | Longleaf pine sandhills, dry hammocks. | S. and e. Georgia and Florida Panhandle, west to Texas. |  (c) Weakley, Alan | |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia humilis | Texas Spiderwort | Sandy or rocky ground. | Sc. Oklahoma south to s. Texas. | |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia longipes | Dwarf Spiderwort | Wooded slopes on rocky hillsides, shale glades. | Missouri and Arkansas. |  (c) Aaron, Nathan |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia mundula | "Wandering Jew", Small-leaf Spiderwort, Small-leaf "Wandering Jew" | Disturbed areas; probably at least casually escaping in the Southeast. | Native of South America. |  (c) Shanks, Alice - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia occidentalis var. melanthera | ||||
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia occidentalis var. occidentalis | Prairie Spiderwort | Prairies, forests. | Wisconsin west to Montana, south to e. Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico (Sonora). |  (c) Hill, Sonnia |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia ohiensis | Smooth Spiderwort, Ohio Spiderwort | Woodlands and forests, alluvial bottoms, disturbed areas, roadsides. | Massachusetts west to Minnesota, south to c. peninsular Florida and Texas, some of that range likely the result of naturalization from cultivation. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia ozarkana | Ozark Spiderwort | Bottomlands, rich slopes. | S. Missouri, nw. Arkansas, and e. Oklahoma. |  © Jeff Ausmus |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia pallida | Purplequeen, Purpleheart, "Wandering Jew" | Disturbed areas. | Native of Mexico. The Alabama report is detailed in Barger et al. (2012). |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia paludosa | Swamp Spiderwort, Confederate Spiderwort | Swamps and bottomlands. | Coastal Plain of Mississippi and Louisiana west to Texas and c. and sw. Arkansas. |  (c) McFarland, Will - CC-BY |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia pedicellata | Rocky soil. | C. Texas; disjunct in nc. Texas. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY | |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia reverchonii | Reverchon's Spiderwort, Woolly Spiderwort | Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands, sandy openings. | Sw. Arkansas south to sw. Louisiana and e. and c. Texas. |  (c) Hill, Sonnia |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia roseolens | Sandhill Spiderwort | Dry sandy woodlands. | South Carolina south through Georgia to c. peninsular Florida, west to Alabama. |  (c) Gibson, Clint - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia spathacea | Moses-in-the-cradle, Oyster-plant, Boat-lily | Disturbed areas, suburban woodlands. | Native of s. Mexico and Central America. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia subacaulis | Stemless Spiderwort | Sandy soils. | Endemic to Texas and sw. Arkansas. |  (c) Harrison, David A. |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia subaspera | Wide-leaved Spiderwort, Zigzag Spiderwort | Dry to mesic woodlands and forests, hammocks. | Nc. North Carolina, w. Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, south to North Carolina, South Carolina, sw. Georgia, Panhandle Florida, and Alabama. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia tharpii | Dwarf Spiderwort | Rocky and calcareous prairies, blackland prairies, sand prairies, sand barrens. | Missouri and Kansas south through Oklahoma to Texas. |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia virginiana | Virginia Spiderwort | Nutrient-rich forests and woodlands. | Maine west to Michigan and Wisconsin, south to n. Georgia, Missouri, and e. Arkansas. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia zebrina | Zebra Plant, "Wandering Jew", Creeping Charlie | Hammocks, disturbed areas; suburban woodlands. | Native of tropical America. |  (c) Xharahi, Eridan - CC-BY |