| Scientific Name: | Tradescantia pallida |
| Common Name: | wandering Jew , spiderwort |
| Family Name: | Commelinaceae |
| Origin: | Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Parallel venation, Pubescent, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Oblong, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, White, Purple, Pink, Mar-Apr-May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems thick but fragile; leaves pointed, lanceolate-oblong, most 10-20cm long x 3-7cm wide, pubescent, bases sheathing the stem; flowers with 3 pink petals, about 2cm wide, in small clusters. | |