Anyone know what flowers these are?

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One of my Gardening Cook fans on facebook shared this photo with me. Anyone know what the flowers are?

Jeanne Benedict · Answer

Spiderwart

Sensible Gardening and Living · Answer

Carol it is spiderwort, proper name is Tradescantia.

Laura D · Answer

Tradescantia and it spreads profusely if you don't keep the flowers from going to seed.

TJ · Answer

In the northern climes, it is fairly easy to keep it in check. But it is so pretty, that I love when it pops up here and there. I just pull out any that show up where I don't want them. They are a native plants over a good portion of the US.

Sandi Maurer · Answer

love these spiderwort plants still blooming away in Sept around Ohio !! Enjoy you flowers!!!

Rose S · Answer

definitely Spiderworth. I ave several varieties. I cut mine back when they get 'stalky' and then have a second crop now in September. They can become invasive.

Cheryl stanley · Answer

I always think of my great grandmas garden when I see spiderwort. I have the variegated variety.

NancyLee · Answer

Yes, spiderwort - beautiful blue flowers - mine multiplies but not invasive.

Cheryl Hudson · Answer

This grows wild in SC. I've seen it in a lot of places.

Jeanette S · Answer

I don't know it's name, but I unwisely did not listen to my mother-in-law who warned me not to take a piece of it for my yard! I have recently spent 2 years in an effort to eradicate every piece (I hope I got it all)! It not only spreads, it goes airborne! You can cover it with black plastic if you do not want to spray it (I am not opposed to spraying, covering, digging...the only method I did not use was a shotgun blast!) You will learn to HATE IT!

Judy · Answer

Spiderwort, AKA Widow's Tears. Mine are more purple than blue but same plant.

Sally Cuzzort · Answer

Uh oh, we just planted some that my aunt gave us, in two different locations.

Marilyn · Answer

I have the same ones only in white. I've wondered what they were.

Anne · Answer

This is definitely Spiderwort. They don't transplant well at all; at least mine did not. It just popped up in my yard up North in about 5 places. It didn't seem invasive and except for the 2 that were in the middle of my lawn area, I enjoyed having it. Tried to move them one by one and they all died. I have since seen them to buy.

Patti · Answer

I have been trying to get this plant out of my yard. I got it many years ago and thought I got it all. Just this past week they have popped everywhere and are in bloom. They are taking over my garden. How do I get rid of them. I pull them up and try to get all the roots, they run underground forever, They are beautifully blooming right now and it is ashame to pull them out but I have no choice.

Cathe · Answer

Mine grow wild......here.

Cheryl stanley · Answer

this is so interesting!  I planted my spiderwort in the flowerbed with the other flowers 6 years ago and it hasn't spread at all.  it is a healthy plant and blooms beautifully year after year.  it is a well behaved plant!

Brenda · Answer

I love spiderwort. The first time I saw spiderwort it was growing wild and very invasive on in-laws property had no idea where it came from it just appeared after they had lived there for 20 years, at this time we were also living there. We moved back to our house 40 miles away 12 years ago and I transplanted 3 starts in different flower beds at that time, they come up each year but only 1 start has spread just a little and not what I would call invasive at all as I haven't had to remove any. But when the weather gets real hot (90 + degrees) it seems to die out for the season but will come back the following year. This year we didn't have 90 degrees until late summer so I had spiderwort longer then previous years and it was beautiful.

Carol Speake - The Gardening Cook · Answer

thanks for all the replies. Much appreciated! Carol

Shelby24019 · Answer

Carol, just in case you are looking for the Botanical name, it is Tradescantia and they come in colors of white, pink, blue, purple and mauve. Just in the last few years they have developed one called 'Sweet Kate' which is one of my favorite plants. Beautiful lemon-lime leaves and bight blue flowers. I'm including a picture of mine.
Any new ones I have to show up I give them too friends that have plenty of space.

Julie Johnson · Answer

Tradescantia ... lovely herbaceous perennial, flowers over a long period and non invasive :)

Heidi @ Heidi Ho-rticulture · Answer

When mine go limp, I cut back the floppy leaves and then new leaves emerge from the base.

Helen Altman · Answer

This appears to be spiderwort. I have a plant which came from my grandmother's plant years ago. She was born in 1880.

Flowerscapes Garden Design & Landscaping · Answer

I planted spiderwort at the edge of the back of my pond. I love it but wish the Hotlanta summer did not exhaust it so much.

Marie Powers · Answer

It looks like spiderwart to me

Marilyn · Answer

Mine is white.

Terie Morton · Answer

Spiderwort, I put mine into a square tomatoe cage early in season. Keeps them from drooping and makes them last all summer!

Martha Campbell · Answer

Yep. Spiderwort.

Coc5929059 · Answer

It's spiderswort..... A very old perennial.... It will come  up in a crack in a sidewalk... It reseeds itself if not cut back ..... Cut back & it blooms all season ....it will be around for many years.. I love it ...

Rose S · Answer

Spiderwort, the bane of my garden! I eradicate it every year. I think. But next year it is back 'in Spades'. I admit, nice blue flowers, nut if you don't cut them back regularly, they will take over and pop up in distant places. Who knew that it could fly!

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