Chain Plant
Callisia repens (Jacq.) L.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 13 cm
- wide
- 91 cm
Commelinaceae
Also called Creeping inchplant, Inch Plant, Turtle Vine, "Bolivian Jew"
Formerly Callisia hexandra, Hapalanthus repens, Tradescantia callisia, Tradescantia repens
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Texas to Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 15 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension pink, white; Wikipedia white
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Chinese
- 洋竹草, 翠玲瓏, 舖地錦竹草
- Simplified Chinese
- 洋竹草, 锦竹草
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Callisia repens (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.