Details
| Full name | Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Baby Doll’. |
| Name status | Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. First listed for sale by Royal Horticultural Society (2000, p. 717). Established with a description by Rowe (2025). |
| Origins | Unknown. |
| Classification | Like other hardy garden hybrids, it is now placed in the Andersoniana Group. These hybrids are sometimes mislabelled as T. virginiana or the invalid botanical hybrid T. × andersoniana. |
| Legal protection | None. |
| Availability | Available from a small number of nurseries. |
Description
Described by Elmlea Plants (2022).
| Cultivar group | Tradescantia Andersoniana Group. |
| Flowers | Light purple-blue. |
References
Royal Horticultural Society. (2000). RHS Plant Finder 2000.
Brickell, C. D., Alexander, C., Cubey, J. J., David, J. C., Hoffman, M. H. A., Leslie, A. C., Malécot, V., Jin, X. (2016). International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. PDF link.
Elmlea Plants. (2022). Tradescantia “Baby Doll”. Internet Archive link.
Rowe, A. (2025). Compiling the first Tradescantia cultivar checklist. HortScience, 60(9); 1534-1542. Open access link.