spiderwort

IPA: spˈaɪdɝwɝt

A perennial plant of the Tradescantia genus, found in clumps in woodland and meadow.

Examples of "spiderwort" in Sentences

_Tradescantia_ -- This is otherwise known as spiderwort, Wandering Jew,
It was peeling, and long pieces of paint hung down like the drooping leaves of a spiderwort.
The spiderwort was a rich blue with its two large petals rounded, while the third one was tiny and colorless.
Maybe, he thought with a smile, this was some common, humble plant he tended'dandelion or catnip or spiderwort.
The spiderwort is a flower whose juice is used for painting the silks before they're masked with starch and then dyed.
But if you've never smelled the juice of a spiderwort … well, I was very glad at the end of the week to go back to boiling dyes once again.
Wetlands will reassert themselves, Muscatine vines, spiderwort and pickerel weed will overrun the golf courses, and panthers will dance again in the forests.
I also grow a silver-leafed version of the common green-leaf brunnera called Jack Frost, which is particularly amazing-looking when its bright blue flowers are blooming, and a variety of spiderwort (Tradescantia) called Sweet Kate, whose own blue flowers stand out against its unusual bright yellow leaves instead of the typical green ones.