Tradescantia spathacea, the boatlily or Moses-in-the-cradle, is a herb in the Commelinaceae family first described in 1788. It is native to Belize, Guatemala, and southern Mexico (Chiapas, Tabasco, and the Yucatán Peninsula) but widely cultivated as an ornamental and naturalized in parts of Florida, Texas, Hawaii, and various oceanic islands. Ephemerum bicolor, Rhoeo discolor, Rhoeo spathacea, Rhoeo spathacea f. concolor, Rhoeo spathacea f. variegata, Tradescantia discolor, Tradescantia discolor var. concolor, Tradescantia discolor var. variegata, Tradescantia versicolor