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Family	Scientific Name	Common Name	Habitat	Distribution	Image
Commelinaceae	Callisia
Commelinaceae	Callisia cordifolia	Florida Roseling	Calcareous hammocks, disturbed areas.	Native from n. peninsular FL to s. FL; Mexico, the West Indies, and n. South America; reported as well for nw. GA (Faden in FNA 2000), where presumably a waif.
Commelinaceae	Callisia fragrans	Basketflower	Disturbed areas.	Native of Mexico.
Commelinaceae	Callisia micrantha	Small-flowered Roseling	Oak and mesquite woodlands, coastal prairies.	Endemic in s. TX.
Commelinaceae	Callisia repens	"Bolivian Jew", Turtle Vine, Chain Plant, Inch Plant	Lawns, disturbed areas.	Native of tropical America.
Commelinaceae	Commelina	Dayflower
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 FL and s. GA (Faden 1993)
Commelinaceae	Commelina caroliniana	Indian Dayflower	Moist disturbed areas, fields.	Native of India and Bangladesh.
Commelinaceae	Commelina communis	Common Dayflower	Gardens, bottomlands, disturbed ground, and a common invader of rocky glades.	Native of the Old World.
Commelinaceae	Commelina diffusa	Creeping Dayflower	Mudflats, alluvial margins, bottomlands, also fields and disturbed ground.	VA west to MO, south to s. FL and s. TX, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West Indies. Probably native in our area, but sometimes regarded as an Old World species. Encountered very early inland, so plausible as native or as an early introduction.
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. NC south to s. FL, west to TX, and north and west in the interior to IA, nw. NE, CO, and NM; also apparently in Central and South America.
Commelinaceae	Commelina erecta var. deamiana	Midwestern Dayflower	Usually in dry, sandy soils.	IN, IL, and IA south to AR, TX, NM, and AZ.
Commelinaceae	Commelina erecta var. erecta	Erect Dayflower	Dry openings and woodlands, especially in thin soil around rock outcrops, streambanks, riverbanks, mesic forests.	PA west to MO and e. KS, south to FL and TX; also apparently in Central and South America.
Commelinaceae	Commelina forskaolii	Rat's-ear	Disturbed areas.	Native of Old World tropics.
Commelinaceae	Commelina gambiae		Disturbed areas.	A West African species first collected in North America in 1976 (Manatee County, FL), is immediately distinguishable from our species by its peach-colored flowers and fused spathes
Commelinaceae	Commelina gigas	Climbing Dayflower	Moist hammocks, lake edges, strand swamps, wet disturbed areas.	Native of se. Asia.
Commelinaceae	Commelina virginica	Virginia Dayflower	Bottomlands, swamp forests, tidal swamp forests, other moist to wet forests and forest edges.	NJ west to KS and OK, south to FL and TX.
Commelinaceae	Commelinaceae	Spiderwort Family
Commelinaceae	Cuthbertia	Roseling
Commelinaceae	Cuthbertia graminea	Grassleaf Roseling	Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands.	Se. VA south through NC, SC, and GA to c. peninsula FL and e. FL Panhandle.
Commelinaceae	Cuthbertia ornata	Florida Roseling, Scrub Roseling	Longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub, dunes.	FL peninsula (north to Alachua County); disjunct in Gulf County in the FL Panhandle.
Commelinaceae	Cuthbertia rosea	Common Roseling	Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands.	MD south to peninsular FL, west to s. AL.
Commelinaceae	Gibasis	Bridalveil
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).
Commelinaceae	Murdannia	Murdannia, Dewflower
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 Asia, now widespread in the se. United States. M. keisak was introduced to SC and LA in the 1920s and 1930s, probably as a contaminant in rice seed, but the seeds now distributed by water and waterfowl; it is now a very serious invasive in a wide range of wetland habitats (Dunn & Sharitz 1990).
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.
Commelinaceae	Murdannia spirata var. parviflora	Asiatic Dewflower	Marshes, wet Florida prairies.	Native of tropical Asia.
Commelinaceae	Tinantia
Commelinaceae	Tinantia anomala	Widow's-tears	Limestone gravel, wooded slopes.	Apparently endemic in TX.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia	Spiderwort
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia bracteata	Prairie Spiderwort, Sticky Spiderwort	Mesic upland prairies.	S. MI WI, MN, ND, and MT south to s. IN, s. IL, s. MO, w. AR, s. OK, w. KS, and e. WY.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia buckleyi	Buckley's Spiderwort	Clay soils.	S. TX south to Mexico (TAM).
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia crassula		Disturbed oak hammocks.	Native of South America.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia edwardsiana	Plateau Spiderwort	Moist forests in ravines and floodplains.	Ne. TX south to Edwards Plateau, TX.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia ernestiana	Ernest's Spiderwort	Dry woodlands.	Primarily Ozarkian (AR, MO, OK, disjunct east to nw. GA and ne. AL, and west to n. TX (Faden in FNA 2000).
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia fluminensis	Wandering Jew, Small-leaf Spiderwort, Small-leaf Wandering Jew	Disturbed areas, lawns, vacant lots, moist suburban woods, along streams.	Native of tropical America. Reported for Beaufort Co. SC (Daniel C. Payne 2009, pers. comm.).
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia gigantea	Giant Spiderwort	Limestone soils.	N. LA and n. TX south to c. TX.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia hirsuticaulis	Hairy Spiderwort	Dry rocky woodlands, and rock outcrops (especially granitic flatrocks and domes).	W. NC and wc. TN south to sc. SC, s. GA, s. AL, and sc. MS; west of the Mississippi River in AR, e. OK, and nw. LA.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia hirsutiflora		Longleaf pine sandhills, dry hammocks.	S. and e. GA and FL Panhandle, west to TX.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia humilis	Texas Spiderwort	Sandy or rocky ground.	Sc. OK south to s. TX.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia longipes	Dwarf Spiderwort	Wooded slopes on rocky hillsides.	MO and AR.
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.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia occidentalis var. occidentalis	Prairie Spiderwort	Prairies, forests.	WI west to MT, south to e. LA, TX, NM, AZ, and Mexico (SON).
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia ohiensis	Smooth Spiderwort, Ohio Spiderwort	Woodlands and forests, alluvial bottoms, disturbed areas, roadsides.	MA west to MN, south to c. peninsular FL and TX, some of that range likely the result of naturalization from cultivation.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia ozarkana	Ozark Spiderwort	Bottomlands, rich slopes.	S. MO, nw. AR, and e. OK.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia pallida	Purplequeen, Purpleheart, "Wandering Jew"	Disturbed areas.	Native of Mexico. The AL report is detailed in Barger et al. (2012).
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia paludosa	Swamp Spiderwort, Confederate Spiderwort	Swamps and bottomlands.	Coastal Plain of MS and LA west to TX and c. and sw. AR.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia pedicellata		Rocky soil.	C. TX; disjunct in nc. TX.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia reverchonii	Reverchon's Spiderwort, Woolly Spiderwort	Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands, sandy openings.	Sw. AR south to sw. LA and e. and c. TX.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia roseolens	Sandhill Spiderwort	Dry sandy woodlands.	SC south through GA to c. peninsular FL, west to AL.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia spathacea	Moses-in-the-cradle, Oyster-plant, Boat-lily	Disturbed areas, suburban woodlands.	Native of s. Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia subacaulis	Stemless Spiderwort	Sandy soils.	Endemic to TX.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia subaspera	Wide-leaved Spiderwort, Zigzag Spiderwort	Dry to mesic woodlands and forests, hammocks.	Nc. NC, w. VA, WV, OH, IN, IL, and MO, south to NC, SC, sw. GA, Panhandle FL, and AL.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia tharpii	Dwarf Spiderwort	Rocky prairies, other open ground.	MO and KS south through OK to TX.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia virginiana	Virginia Spiderwort	Nutrient-rich forests and woodlands.	ME west to MI and WI, south to n. GA, MO, and e. AR.
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia zebrina	Zebra Plant, "Wandering Jew", Creeping Charlie	Hammocks, disturbed areas; suburban woodlands.	Native of tropical America.