This is a species of spiderwort (Tradescantia pallida) that is commonly known as a Wandering Jew. I've had this plant for over a year already and I first got it early last summer at a conference I was attending. I've faithfully watered it and pruned the dead stems and leaves off it while the rest of my friends who went there have either killed their plant or threw it out which is something I could never do.
It has lived with me ever since; in my house on Brattleboro last summer, in Jewett Hall last year and right now in my new house. It grew quite a bit from when I first got it and since it's shade tolerant, it's pretty hardy and I currently keep it on the windowsill in my kitchen.
It had been outgrowing it's pot for a while now and I never could find a larger pot that I liked to re-pot it into. Just before school started, I went to the IKEA store in Chicago and found a really nice pot for it. I have since re-potted it and it has grown many new green leaves ever since.
Along with it is my purple African violet that I acquired just this Spring and a baby aloe plant that my friend Sam gave to me as it budded off his large plant. They are all happily perched on the shelf next to the window at my kitchen sink.
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