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spiderwort

NOUN
  1. any plant of the family Commelinaceae

How To Use spiderwort In A Sentence

  • The spiderwort is a flower whose juice is used for painting the silks before they're masked with starch and then dyed. Memoirs of a Geisha
  • When summer-flowering perennials such as bellflowers, geraniums, lychnis, Shasta daisies, and spiderworts finish blooming and start to look tattered, cut back their stems to the rosette of new foliage.
  • Spring-blooming wildflowers are the broad-leaved spiderwort, downy yellow violet, and hairy phlox.
  • In the few places where sunlight had good purchase, patches of spiderwort crowned with their blue flowers carpeted the ground.
  • The spiderwort was a rich blue with its two large petals rounded, while the third one was tiny and colorless. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks
  • In the few places where sunlight had good purchase, patches of spiderwort crowned with their blue flowers carpeted the ground.
  • Lilies and the flower-de-luce sprang up in the place of reeds; smilax and poison-oak gave way to the purple-plumed iron-weed and pink spiderwort; the bindweeds ran everywhere blooming as they ran, and on one of the dead cypresses a giant creeper hung its green burden of foliage and lifted its scarlet trumpets. Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
  • Tropical spiderwort, inconsequential for seven decades, has recently spread in alarming proportions in fields in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina.
  • _Tradescantia_ -- This is otherwise known as spiderwort, Wandering Jew, Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse
  • Many evergreen ornamental foliage plants and flowering plants, including ivy, aloe, ceriman and spiderwort, have special effects to decompose formaldehyde.
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