How To Use Spiderwort In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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Spring-blooming wildflowers are the broad-leaved spiderwort, downy yellow violet, and hairy phlox.
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In the few places where sunlight had good purchase, patches of spiderwort crowned with their blue flowers carpeted the ground.
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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
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In the few places where sunlight had good purchase, patches of spiderwort crowned with their blue flowers carpeted the ground.
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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
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Tropical spiderwort, inconsequential for seven decades, has recently spread in alarming proportions in fields in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina.
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_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
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Many evergreen ornamental foliage plants and flowering plants, including ivy, aloe, ceriman and spiderwort, have special effects to decompose formaldehyde.
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Wetlands will reassert themselves, Muscatine vines, spiderwort and pickerel weed will overrun the golf courses, and panthers will dance again in the forests.
Catching On To Florida's Economic 'Ponzi Scheme'
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The Bengal dayflower (also known as tropical spiderwort) is becoming an important species in Africa and Asia, not to mention, in irrigated fields.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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It was peeling, and long pieces of paint hung down like the drooping leaves of a spiderwort.
As Husbands Go
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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 at the base of the plants.
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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.
Memoirs of a Geisha
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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 at the base of the plants.
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Many evergreen ornamental foliage plants and flowering plants, including ivy, aloe, ceriman and spiderwort, have special effects to decompose formaldehyde.
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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.
My Not-So-Exotic Garden
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Maybe, he thought with a smile, this was some common, humble plant he tended'dandelion or catnip or spiderwort.
Dragons Of A Vanished Moon
