Position in a system
species
Prairie Spiderwort
Tradescantia occidentalis (Britt.) Smyth
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Magnoliophyta Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. - flowering plants |
| class | Liliopsida Batsch - monocotyledons |
| order | Commelinales Dumortier |
| family | Commelinaceae R. Br. |
| subfamily | Commelinoideae Eaton |
| genus | Tradescantia Ruppius ex L. - spiderwort |
| species | Tradescantia occidentalis (Britt.) Smyth - Prairie Spiderwort |