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    (c) Ricard Busquets Reverte, some rights reserved (CC BY)

  • Purple Heart, 2 of 6
    Photo 2 of 6

    (c) Diego Amaya, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

  • Purple Heart, 3 of 6
    Photo 3 of 6

    (c) Guillaume Léotard, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) gg_copen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    Photo 5 of 6

    (c) Arthur Moschen, all rights reserved

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    (c) sallyabigailgarciadelangel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Purple Heart

Tradescantia pallida

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Tradescantia pallida is a species of spiderwort (a genus of New World plants) more commonly known as wandering jew, a name it shares with the closely related species T. fluminensis and T. zebrina. Other common names include purple secretia, purple-heart, and purple queen. It is native to the Gulf Coast region of eastern Mexico. Edward Palmer was the first European to observe and assign a Latin name to the type specimen near Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas in...

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